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S Deputy Editor As we mark a new REN ´EE ALFUSO (CAS ’06) era in Washington, D.C., and a fresh Staff Writer chance to tackle the challenges of the JOHN KLOTNIA / OPTO DESIGN Creative Director day, we have rarely felt the need for ANDREA CRAWFORD rebirth more vividly or more urgent - Contributing Editor ly. After taking in the harrowing Articles economic news of recent months, it JOSEPH MANGHISE feels like we are staring down one of Copy Chief the greatest tests of our lifetime. DAVID COHEN Such was the sentiment among Research Chief scholars at the Leonard N. Stern Art / Opto Design School of Business last fall when NYU AT THE FAR REACHES OF THE GLOBE: BRITTANY LAUGHLIN (STERN ’06), TRUSTEE JAY RON LOUIE they watched the astonishing global FURMAN (LAW ’71), AND PRESIDENT JOHN SEXTON POSE WITH ADELIE PENGUINS DURING A Art Director economic crisis unfold. Even as they RECENT TRIP TO ANTARCTICA. KIRA CSAKANY SHIHO OSUMI rushed to make sense of the ruin, whether we now live in a “postra - in which we live—and to help MASHA ZOLOTARSKY they realized that they must put for - cial” society. While the researchers that world understand us—the Designers ward their best ideas on how to re - featured in “Can We Talk ?” (p. 48) university is expanding overseas to MARGARET LANZONI Photo Research Director build a stronger financial future. The wouldn’t say we’ve come that far, a branch campus in Abu Dhabi and Obama administration has taken there is consensus that we’re in a a network of new study-abroad Advertising note of their recommendations, as better place than ever to have a sites, as examined in “Walking DEBORAH BRODERICK seen in this magazine’s feature, frank conversation about how race the Global Walk” (p. 52). Associate Vice President of Marketing Communications “Economy: Code Red” (p. 34), and affects our work and personal lives. As always, we hope this issue in a new book published in March. From this introspection, the of NYU Alumni Magazine offers you Alumni News Editors Barack Obama’s ascendency to magazine widens its lens to look new opportunity for both reflec - JENNIFER BOSCIA SMITH (SCPS ’04) the presidency has not only prompt - at NYU’s efforts to redefine the tion and connection. Director of Development and Alumni Communications JOHN SEXTON ed new hopes for economic policy; term “global education.” In order KATIE D. GRAHAM it has also inspired many to wonder to truly understand the world Communications Associate New York University MARTIN LIPTON (LAW ’55) Board of Trustees, Chairman JOHN SEXTON CONTRIBUTORS President LYNNE P. BROWN Senior Vice President for University JANET ALLON CHRISTIAN D EBENEDETTI BETH STEVENS is a freelance writer is a (TSOA ’93, Relations and Public Affairs living in Manhattan who has writ - contributing editor to National Ge - ’95) is the managing editor of DEBRA A. 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One of them shops at NYU from 1978 to 1985 to help new ZW[WbSRbW[S UWdW\U ]^^]`bc\Wbg( also got her MBA there, while another got his generations of dancers take flight. As it turns out, law degree from Villanova University. I would the shot was actually snapped at Purchase College Q G]c [cab PS % gSO`a ]T OUS like to show them what an international in 1980 when the dance “Cavalcade” premiered— Q G]c [cab [OYS g]c` QVO`WbOPZS university NYU is. Besides La Pietra, where else and somehow made its way into the NYU Archives. RWab`WPcbW]\ c^ b] do you have international teaching locations? Pg 2SQS[PS` ! Karlyle Facey STERN ’48, ’56 Q G]c [cab W\ab`cQb g]c` Williamsport, Pennsylvania 7@/ Qcab]RWO\ b] [OYS bVS QVO`WbOPZS RWab`WPcbW]\ RW`SQbZg Editors’ note: You’re in luck! 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Stern University College, now College no longer exists but is used School of Business Undergraduate of Arts and Science; refers to to refer to its alumni through MED - School of Medicine, College, formerly School of alumni of the undergraduate 1974 formerly College of Medicine Commerce; and College of Busi - school in arts and science from ness and Public Administration 1974 to 1994 Programs offered year-round in world cultural centers New York University Monday morning. G Have coffee. G Fill out NYU study abroad application. G Submit and go to class. 6 months from Monday. . n o i G t Wave goodbye to family. u t i t s n G Board plane. i y t i n u t G Be there. r o p p o l a u apply nowand q e / n o i t c a be there for fall 2009 e v i t a m r i f f www.nyu.edu/abroad/sitesabroad a n a s i y t i s r e v i n U k NYU StudyAbroad. Be there. r o Y w e N expert advice S TO Letters{THE } Q President ILLUSTRATIONS BY JACK UNRUH TU HE acted as a “lender of working longer. Should we raise last resort,” the Treas - the age at which Social Security ury has invested hun - retirement benefits begin? Should dreds of billions in we ask those who can afford financial institutions, to do so to draw less from Social A and your administra - Security and to pay more of their tion, working with Medicare costs? Congress, has fash - Foreign hands hold much of our ioned an economic debt, which makes it all the more stimulus package call - necessary to right our fiscal house. ing for public spend - If we are tempted to lighten the ing and taxpayer relief. real burden of public debt via in - These measures, if his - flation, foreigners are likely to re - R ECONOMICS DEBT OF RECKONING tory is a guide, will restore the duce their holdings, and also to functioning of our financial sys - avoid relying on the dollar as a Dear Mr. tem. Financial meltdowns and world currency. recessions do happen, but Mr. President, we face a President, they also go away. ticking fiscal time bomb, The cost of this fight, made worse by the current The two most and victory, however, is financial predicament. So E likely to come to some - far, politicians and pressing thing in the trillions of most of the rest of us dollars. We will see the have ignored it. As our economic national debt rise by current economic that amount, and we problems recede over problems are will pay the interest on the next four years, I pretty clear to that increased debt for years to hope that you will lead a public come. Social Security and discussion of our long-term chal - Americans: Medicare spending are also likely lenges and how they can be solved. to increase at even faster rates in the breakdown of our (and the the years ahead, as more and more Sincerely, world’s) financial system and the of the baby boomers retire. The RICHARD SYLLA nasty recession that has resulted. yet unfunded liabilities of these Henry Kaufman Professor of the Our government has responded programs run into the tens of tril - History of Financial Institutions to these crises in time-tested lions of dollars, and they beg for re - and Markets, Leonard N. Stern ways. The Federal Reserve has form as Americans are living and School of Business NATIONAL SECURITY A FAREWELL TO NUCLEAR ARMS Dear Mr. President, As you said at Grant Park last November, yourelection victory was a triumph for the American people. They showed that they want change, and that they reject the use of fear in the justification of policies or the ately to safely and progressively trigger alert. Another important taskis crucial. The way ahead will manipulation of opinions, which curb these weapons, includ - step is to renew the Strategic be tough and you have many oth - had come to characterize so much ing urging Congress to rat - Arms Reduction Treaty, er pressing issues on your agenda. of the public discourse. The peo - ify the Comprehensive which expires at the end But there’s a saying: If you’ve got a ple expect you to take bold steps. Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, of 2009, but with much big problem demanding immedi - In your speech in Prague, you negotiating a treaty that pro - lower levels of weapons ate action, give it to a busy man. took exactly one such bold step: hibits any further manu - systems. Godspeed you. the proposal to eliminate all nu - facture of weapons-grade You and your team clear weapons. As you recognize, fissile material, and coop - have already made AMBASSADOR as long as nuclear weapons exist, erating with the Russians strides toward these RICHARD BUTLER, AC they will proliferate amongst to take all strategic mis - ends. The leadership Global Diplomat in Residence, states—and possibly nonstate siles—some 1,500 on you have shown in call - Center for Global Affairs, School of groups. Experts agree that use of both sides—off of hair- ing the world to this Continuing and Professional Studies them is inevitable, whether by ac - cident or decision, and any use EDUCATION FROM CLINIC TO CLASSROOM would constitute an environmen - tal, political, and moral catastrophe. Dear Mr. President, tion Sciences (IES) and increasing The arguments typically ad - its funding. Just as in medicine, vanced against elimination—it Congratulations! As promised where researchers are now work - can’t be done, others would cheat, ing to overcome their own “bench we need them to fight terrorists— in your campaign, you have to bedside” gap, the federal gov - are, to put it mildly, empty. The already launched an ambitious ernment and universities must en - deterrence-of-terrorism argument sure with the same urgency and is particularly egregious given the education agenda, including concern that education research fact that we have developed ex - translates to practice. traordinarily capable conventional supporting early childhood Funding will be critical. The weapons to more effectively com - IES budget for 2008 was less than bat terrorists’ guerilla methods of education, reforming the No Child dents who failed to learn fractions 1 percent of the $59.2 billion attack. As I recall, we had plenty of Left Behind Act, addressing the earlier? How can we help hyperac - appropriated to the Department of nuclear weapons on 9/11. More to dropout crisis, recruiting and re - tive children pay attention? Teach - Education. Mr. President, you the point, the only way terrorists taining teachers, and expand - ers grapple with these questions have already nearly doubled the will acquire such weapons is from ing afterschool programs. daily and research can point department’s budget, but I urge those who, like us, continue to These are all worthy out clear directions for their you to also double the current possess them. initiatives, but in order to decision-making. funding for the IES. If we spend There is another reason for re - tackle any of them, poli - However, in education, modest amounts on education re - moving this intolerable danger: en - cymakers and teachers we have a “clinical lab to class - search, we will know how to in - ergy. Many countries have turned need usable knowledge room” gap. Vital knowledge vest in reforming our educational to nuclear power as an alternative about how children too often remains with the system. Without this, we will con - to costly, polluting petroleum learn and what teaching researchers, unavailable to tinue to blindly throw money at products. But this must not be per - methods get the best re - those in positions to help our problems. mitted to increase the proliferation sults. Should a teacher, children and youth. One of nuclear weapons. for example, give home - of your priorities these Sincerely, Reliable surveys show that some work to first-graders and, if next four years should be MARY M. BRABECK, PHD 73 percent of Americans and 63 so, what kind and how to promote research that Dean and Professor of Applied percent of Russians already support much? What’s the best way to easily translates to classrooms Psychology, Steinhardt School of elimination. There are concrete introduce fractions to fourth- by reauthorizing the Department Culture, Education, and Human steps that could be taken immedi - graders—or teach high school stu - of Education’s Institute of Educa - Development NYU / SPRING 2009 / 9 HEALTH CARE UNIVERSAL OVERHAUL S Q Dear Mr. President, adults who can be covered by their parents’ plans up to the age of 30. THE U Health-care reform is a tough issue in Then we face the hard questions about strategies to cover those left A the United States, and while there have out and the role that gov - R been windows of opportunity for change ernment can play to E include them. before, this time is different. You have a Second, we spend more than any mandate: Exit polls showed health First, starting with the personal quickly through incremental other country on care to be the No. 3 issue of con - health-care system, most Ameri - coverage programs such as health care—more cern to voters after the economy cans want to see the uninsured pro - the State Children’s Health than $7,000 per per - and the war in Iraq, and 75 percent vided with coverage, and many say Insurance Program, offering son each year—but of voters think the federal govern - that they’re willing to pay more buy-in to Medicare for peo - the return is disap - ment should play a more active role. taxes to make it happen. Efforts to - ple 55 and older, and ex - pointing. Among So, what should the priorities be? ward a universal policy could move tending the age of young the 30 countries in the Organisation for Economic CIVICS ON GOVERNMENT SERVICE Co-operation and Development, the American system is the most Dear Mr. President, expensive and least efficient. Our infant mortality and life expectan - The federal government’s 1.8 million civil cy rank 27th and 21st, respective - ly. Why have our investments servants are ready to be called again to brought poor results? One reason is faithfully execute the laws and to be partners that access to medical care is not the major factor in health. It ac - in changing the way Washington works. counts for only about 10 percent of avoidable mortality in the United All you have to do is ask. States but attracts more than 95 percent of health dollars. Health- First, you should speak to fed - are occupied by political ap - Service needs agents to collect care reform must spend more on eral employees as a whole. George pointees, including more than more than $300 billion in delin - primary care and prevention, as W. Bush mostly ignored the 2,000 that you will appoint with - quent taxes. And they are hardly well as on community-based pro - federal service. He made dozens out Senate confirmation. There alone. Name a front-line agency, grams in areas such as tobacco use of speeches to uniformed officers are plenty of career senior execu - such as the Veterans Benefits Ad - prevention, and healthy diet and involved in the war on terrorism tives who could fill these posi - ministration, and the shortages are exercise promotion, which save but never asked for sacrifice tions. Doing so would signal palpable. They need new employ - nearly $6 in health-care costs for from the civil service. Interviewed that bloat is bloat at whatever ees and fast. every dollar invested. in 2002, 65 percent of de - level it occurs. For inspiration, you might look Finally, the public needs to un - fense department civil ser - Third, you should hire to George H.W. Bush, who con - derstand that health is everyone’s vants said they felt a new at least 100,000 front- sidered himself a product of the business! As you have said, it is an sense of urgency after Sep - line servants for belea - federal service and made every economic issue, an educational is - tember 11th, while just guered agencies that no effort to engage them. The first sue, and an environmental issue, 35 percent of their col - longer have enough president Bush met with senior and your attention to strengthen - leagues in the domestic staff to handle their executives immediately after his ing these sectors and communicat - departments agreed. responsibilities.The inauguration in 1989. The sooner ing these links will be critical to Second, you should U.S. Food and you call on the federal service improving health for all. cut the number of po - Drug Administra - for commitment, the sooner they litical appointments at tion needs inspec - will respond. Sincerely, the top of government. tors to intercept JO IVEY BOUFFORD You have already promised to counterfeit drugs and poisoned Sincerely, Professor of Health Policy and Public cut middle managers, but remem - peppers; the Social Security Ad - PAUL C. LIGHT Service, Robert F. Wagner Graduate ber that between a quarter and ministration needs representatives Paulette Goddard Professor of School of Public Service, and two-fifths of the stultifying man - to handle the surge in disability Public Service, Robert F. Wagner President of The New York agement layers in government claims; the Internal Revenue Graduate School of Public Service Academy of Medicine 10 / SPRING 2009 / NYU Wear New York University Proudly. Convenient online shopping bookstores www.nyu.edu/bookstores/alumni writers workshop utes to write. “Don’t worry about This connection makes it easier S forcing the music.” With photo - to share the intense stories that oc - Q graphs of Philip Roth, Susan Son - casionally spill forth. “Trying to tag, and Gwendolyn Brooks gazing take a lot of this stuff into a [regu - THE U down upon them, the men settle lar] writing group is weird because into stillness and begin. no one else can relate to it,” says A TH E ART “They produce some of the Scranton, who’s completing a joint R most beautiful writing, really pow - BA and MA in liberal arts/liberal E erful, really horrifying at times,” studies at the New School, and was says McClung, whose father was a stationed in Germany, Iraq, and OFWAR Vietnam War draftee and who is Oklahoma during his four-year VETERANS FIND STORYTELLING currently working on an antholo - tenure with the Army. “It’s like gy of writing by the children of they can’t even talk about the writ - OFFERS CATHARSIS AND COMMUNITY Vietnam veterans. “But they’ve all ing because it’s a freak show, been able to kind of go into them - whereas coming here, we’re all by Anna Weinberg selves and pull out the stories.” freaks together.” When a writer runs into difficulty, Komunyakaa, the poet, says he n the bitterly cold with writing, and wildly different McClung simply encourages them once thought he would never Saturday before wartime experiences, they manage to write “whatever comes to write about his time in Vietnam Thanksgiving, five to find some common, safe ground mind,” she says. “I tell them not to but that the need to express O veterans gather on each week in the calm cream-and- worry about straying from the as - one’s self through written words West 10th Street slate confines of the program’s signment, but to just write. And if is natural, regardless of the in New York to give Lillian Vernon Creative they want, I encourage them to experience that creates it. “A sol - thanks. “Thanks for Writers House. Like talk out a memory or an idea dier is no different than any other the tree / between me other veterans before until they say something that human being,” says Komunyakaa, & a sniper’s bullet,” them—Hemingway, triggers writing.” who served as an information reads Roy Scranton, Heller, Vonnegut— asoft-spoken, 32 year- many use their writing old Army veteran. to communicate who “Trying to take a lot of this “Thanks for de- or what was taken or stuff into a regular writing group flecting the ricochet gained through their /against that anarchy service. “I lost two is weird because no one else of dusk.” friends while over there can relate to it,” Iraq war veteran The poem is by the and I feel I would be Vietnam vet Yusef wasting myself if I did - Roy Scranton says. Komunyakaa, a Pul- n’t try to do something itzer Prize winner and that educated people on While topics range from a specialist and then as an editor distinguished senior them,” says Jerry Della sailor’s love of the sea to the with the Army’s Southern Cross poet in NYU’s grad - Salla (TSOA ’92), a 39- perennial fallback of writer’s block, newspaper in 1969, and who, uate creative writing year-old actor who en - the singular experience of war along with other guest writers, program, and the men listed after 9/11 and presents its own complications is leading workshops this spring. are veterans of the served as an MP at Abu and urgency for the workshop. “He or she possesses attributes first and second Gulf Ghraib prison from Fewer than 2 percent of Americans of a complex organism, the Wars who have come 2004–05. serve in the military, and innate capacity to respond to together for a work - This November this is a part of what the writers stimuli. But each of us also shop organized by morning, Laren Mc - consider each Saturday. “[War] possesses the capacity of reflec- the university’s Grad - Clung (GSAS ’09), a changes you on so many levels— tion and compassion. Maybe poet - uate Creative Writing warm and thoughtful you don’t feel the same, you don’t ry is a path.” Program. The group, second-year MFA student look at things the same way,” When the 15 minutes are which meets once a week who leads the group, asks says Alexander Misiewicz, 49, a over and it’s time to share the for two hours, encourages everyone to reflect on the gruff Army captain who composes day’s endeavors, Scranton offers veterans to bear witness seasonal themes of gratitude a prayerful poem about a promise up his poem of thanks for his through fiction, essays, and and food through poems by he made to his wife. “It’s very own survival. “My amazement poetry to their own stories of Komunyakaa and Langston lonely because there are so few. at being alive / when I remember combat and homecoming. Hughes. “Let it rise from your Even though everybody’s experi - / remember / a bullet / a truck / a While the 18 men and women own voice into the poem,” she ence is different, there are things night / a mistake / glows so hard,” have varying degrees of comfort tells them, marking out 15 min - that connect us.” he reads, “I can’t even say thanks.” 12 / SPRING 2009 / NYU IN BRIEF AN “A” FOR RESEARCH for New York City Schools. The is designed to help support policy BUSINESS WITHOUT BORDERS The ABC’s really can be as easy nonpartisan group will use data- and practice that is based on The financial world is no longer as 1, 2, 3—or at least, in a based evidence to determine which data-driven research.” With an bound by time and national bor - phrase, that’s what Richard Arum, policies within the school system emphasis on improving student ders, so why should business school professor of sociology at the are most effective. outcomes, the alliance will use in - be? Starting in fall 2009, the Steinhardt School of Culture, Ed - “Education policy too often dependent research from NYU, Leonard N. Stern School of Busi - ucation, and Human Develop - has been made based on hunches, Columbia University’s Teachers ness will offer 50 undergrads a ment, hopes to prove with the fads, and good intentions,” Arum College, and the City University chance to learn as they travel the recently formed Research Alliance explains. “The Research Alliance of New York to better inform pol - world through the new Business icymaking for educators, adminis - and Political Economy program. trators, researchers, and parents. These budding globetrotters will ABU DHABI COMES TO First on the to-do list is find- examine political economy in ing out why large numbers of London during their sophomore WASHINGTON SQUARE teachers give up working for the year and learn about emerging New York City schools in their markets in Shanghai during the The northern strip of Washington Square, which Henry first five years in the position. second semester of their junior Attrition rates are particularly year. The rest of the time will be James depicted in his eponymous 1880 novel, has a classic high in the city’s schools and the spent studying in Washington Greek revival facade. But this fall one will be able to walk Alliance will study how this affects Square. “It is no longer sufficient through the door of 19 Washington Square North, a new learning environments. The re - to simply understand another gateway to NYU Abu Dhabi, and be transported across searchers are also creating an country and culture,” Stern un - archive that will combine survey dergraduate dean Sally Blount says. cultures. The space will house a communication center to data about students, teachers, and “Now an educated person needs hold live conferences between NYU Abu Dhabi and New schools from throughout the city to understand the convergence York, a scholars’ library, faculty and administrative offices, to guide current policy and sim - points across multiple countries and a formal gathering area. The research center will plify future research. and cultures.” —Jaclyn Perry —Candice Horn videocast programs from the Abu Dhabi campus and offer podcasts, video links, and person-to-person computer con - versations. In choice of lighting, color, and decor, the reno - vated building will not only promote integration across cultures but will remind Middle Eastern students of home, says Academic Program Director Maura McGurk. —Crystal Rodriguez I L L U S T R A T I O N © M U R P H Y B U R N H A M A N D B U T T R I C K A R C H I T E C T WITH LIVE-CONFERENCING AND A WARMLY LIT RENOVATION, 19 WASHINGTON SQUARE NORTH WILL BE A PORTAL TO NYU’S NEW CAMPUS IN ABU DHABI. S NYU / SPRING 2009 / 13 what they’re learning A RUSTED CAR EMERGES FROM THE WATER IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA’S SALTON SEA. Here’s a quick look at some of the class’s expansive readings: L.R. Brown, “The Effect of Emerging Water Shortages on the World’s Food,” from Whose Water Is It? The Unquench - able Thirst of a Water-Hungry World (2003). K.M. Strzepek and D.N. Yates, “Responses and Thresholds of the P H O Egyptian Economy to Climate T O © Change Impacts on the Water J O H N Resources of the Nile River,” T R O from Climate Change (2000). The Class T T E R THE THIRSTY WORLD ly to be affected by climate change, S. Galiani, P. Gertler, and E. and file reports for each. And after Schargrodsky, Water for Life: The by Renée Alfuso / CAS ’06 exhaustive readings and guest lec - Impact of the Privatization of Water tures from experts, including sen - Services on Child Mortality (2002). iven the array of Iskander’s fieldwork on labor ior research scientist Daniel Hillel, bottled water lining migration in Morocco and Mexi - who is an international authority L. Smith, “The Murky Waters of supermarket shelves co gave her a firsthand look at how on water sustainability at the Cen - the Second Wave of Neoliberal - these days, it’s diffi - water availability, or lack thereof, ter for Climate Systems Research ism: Corporatization as a Service G Delivery Model in Cape Town,” cult to imagine what led many people to leave their at Columbia University, they share life is like for the one-in-six peo - home villages. Compelled to bet - their findings with the class. This from Geoforum (2004). ple worldwide—about 1.2 bil - ter understand the issue and how way, colleagues can consider how, lion—who live without access to to avoid shortages that could reach for example, negotiations on in - J.A. Allan, “Hydro-Peace in the clean drinking water. But over the catastrophic levels, Iskander de - dustrial water use in San Diego Middle East: Why No Water next 50 years, it will become in - signed a new course called Water might inspire the expansion of Wars? A Case Study of the Jordan creasingly clear, even in the Unit - Sourcing and Delivery in an Era of sanitation services in Cuenca, River Basin,” from SAIS Review ed States, as that number Climate Change. The class simu - Ecuador. Many students are also (2002). skyrockets along with the world’s lates real-world problem solving completing projects in Wagner’s population. And as climate pat - by assigning student teams to ex - Capstone program, in which they V. Bennett, The Politics of Water: terns shift because of global warm - amine five existing cases of water offer recommendations to real in - Urban Protest, Gender and Power in ing, the distribution of water harvesting and distribution sys - ternational clients, such as the Monterrey, Mexico (1995). availability will also change, so tems, such as the Ghana Water World Bank. that water may soon soar past oil as Company’s delivery in Accra and “The problem is at once E. Yuhas and T. Daniels, “The a resource in crisis. “Water will be the supply shortages in Las Vegas. ecological, political, and logisti - U.S. Freshwater Supply Chal - the defining issue of the next cen - Because it’s an emerging field, the cal,” Iskander says. “This class is lenge: Experiences With Desali - tury,” says Natasha Iskander, assis - students must take initiative and trying to create a dialogue among nation as Part of the Solution,” tant professor of public policy at think creatively about the prob - those areas in order to produce from Journal of Environmental Plan - the Robert F. Wagner Graduate lem in a way that few courses re - public servants who can act as a ning and Management (2006). School of Public Service. “While quire. “There is no textbook on bridge between the people who we have enough land to feed the this,” Iskander says. worry about hydrological cycles S. Burra, S. Patel, and T. Kerr, world’s growing population, we The students analyze their as - and climate change, and those “Community-Designed, Built may not have enough water unless signed sites through various lenses, who are worried about pricing and Managed Toilet Blocks in In - we discover new ways of using it such as the political economy of systems and infrastructure for dian Cities,” from Environment much more efficiently.” water and how each system is like - municipal water.” and Urbanization (2003). 14 / SPRING 2009 / NYU An NYU Student Will Be Calling You... And It Might Be Romina. When your phone rings, please take a moment to speak with her. Gifts from alumni, parents, and friends make it possible for students like Romina to pursue the kind of top-notch education only found at NYU. She, and the 70% of NYU students who receive financial aid, are enormously thankful for the generosity of donors to The Fund for NYU. Many of these students, including Romina, reach out by phone to over 150,000 alumni every year. When one of them phones you this year, please answer the call and support The Fund for NYU. To make sure you receive your call this year, e-mail [email protected], or call (212) 998-6984, and update your information. CUTTING-EDGE neuroscience and the Baylor College of Medi - cine in Houston, found some sur - prising things about one of the enzymes critical to the process. The researchers developed mice FORGIN GA NE W PATH lacking FKBP12, a protein that in - terferes with the enzyme in ques - tion, mTOR, which regulates the cellular manufacture of other pro - TO TREA T AUTISM teins. Removing FKBP12 should let mTOR do its thing unchecked, by Matthew Hutson facilitating long-term potentiation. “In our original tests, it looked like ECOGNIZING A FACE. RIDING A BIKE. Long-term memory is thought there was enhanced memory,” to rely on a process called long- READING A BOOK. WITHOUT LONG- Klann says, “but then we found it term potentiation, where, when R TERM MEMORY, NONE OF THESE was a little more complicated. Al - two neurons fire together, their though the mice could memorize tasks would be possible. Neurosci - reveals new information about synaptic connection is altered to things—in some cases better than entists have long aimed to explain one of the enzymes crucial to let them communicate more easi - normal mice—they weren’t flexi - the intricate molecular clockwork long-term memory and may soon ly. As we learn, certain connec - ble.” The mice could learn a maze that allows experience to accumu - lead to novel treatments for neuro - tions are strengthened more than without a hitch, but if you put late so that we may tackle each day logical disorders, such as autism others, etching pathways in the them in a slightly different maze, more capably than the last. A and obsessive compulsive disorder, networks of our brains. This re - they hit a dead end. They couldn’t malfunction in any one cog can or OCD. quires the synthesis of new pro - adjust to changing conditions. leave us forgetful or, as NYU teins, and neuroscientist Eric Further tests revealed that these researchers have found, not for - Klann, along with col - affected mice showed behavior re - getful enough. Their laborators at NYU sembling that of humans with work, published re - autism and OCD. For example, cently in Neuron , they repeatedly buried marbles, a pattern similar to tics in autism or constant hand-washing in OCD. When presented with a previously seen object and a novel one, the mice showed more interest in the old object, revealing discomfort with the unfamiliar. And when given a shock in one environ - ment, they were more likely than normal mice to freeze when placed back in that environment. “If something bad happens at school,” Klann says, “some autis - tic children have a difficult time going back because they’re fear - ful.” The memory is too persistent. I L Both biochemical and L U S T neurophysiological experiments R A T I O confirmed the source of the N © L repetitive behavior. Removal E I G H of FKBP12 did indeed enhance W E L L the activity of the mTOR en - S S RESEARCH Q THE U A zyme, and scientists found in - parasitology creased mTOR signaling in sever - R al areas of the mouse brains. E Klann’s team is now trying to Cracking P H O isolate which molecules down - T O © stream of mTOR’s enyzmatic ac - 2 0 0 Malaria’s 9 tivity are responsible for its effects P H O T on memory. Then maybe they can O R E Code S pharmacologically target those E A R C pieces of the clockwork. H E R by Lindsay Muelle r/CAS ’09 S , Importantly, the changes in the I N C mice did not kick in until two or . three weeks after birth, implying Plasmodium vivax is not the type of malaria parasite work, published as the cover story in a recent issue that autism and related disorders that kills you, explains parasitologist Jane Carlton, of the journal Nature , will allow them to identify weak can develop even in people who “but they say it makes you wish you were dead.” spots in the parasite’s armor and, most important, pro - are born healthy. “It’s not neces - It causes flu-like symptoms—aches, shivers, high vide a foundation for the development of a vaccine. sarily the case that the brain is wired temperature, and a general feeling of malaise—and Carlton’s discovery marks a milestone in malaria re - differently,” Klann says. “It also is responsible for more than a quarter of the 515 search. It is impossible to grow the parasite in a cul - could be that these pathways are million malaria cases diagnosed worldwide each ture, mainly because it requires young red blood cells, just misregulated.” While correct - year. If infected, a patient might feel fine one day which are notoriously difficult to cultivate. Carlton and ing the misregulation may be too and ill the next. “The danger is that you can have it her team partnered with the Centers for Disease Con - tall an order, Klann hopes that and not even know it because the parasite can hiber - trol and Prevention to infect several South American some of the symptoms that de - nate in the liver and remain dormant for months, squirrel monkeys with an El Salvadorian strain of P. crease the quality of life, such as even years,” Carlton says. vivax in order to obtain sufficient DNA for the project. repetitive behaviors, could be So many will take heart in knowing that Carlton In the future, Carlton and her team plan to collect treated—even in an adult. Such a and a team of colleagues at the NYU School of blood samples from P. vivax -infected patients all over breakthrough, he believes, is “not Medicine have decoded the DNA for this species, the world to better understand different strains of the far off at all.” which is endemic in Asia and the Americas. Their disease and, in time, target treatments for it. dentistry University of British Columbia patients displayed an antibody showed that those suffering from associated with periodontal bac - dementia also had high levels of teria, only 38 percent did in the MOUTH REVEALS AN the bacterium found in periodon - other group. tal disease. Kamer recently presented her “I can’t state that the manage - findings at the Alzheimer’s Asso - ALZHEIMER’S CLUE ment of periodontal disease would ciation’s International Confer - suddenly or immediately halt ence in Chicago. While the work by Ted Boscia Alzheimer’s,” cautions Angela may lead dentists to screen their Kamer, assistant professor at the patients more actively for peri - or most people, the stave off one of the most devas - College of Dentistry, and leader odontal disease, it could also help nightly ritual of tating diseases of the brain. of the NYU study. “But it could scientists more precisely identify brushing, flossing, A team of NYU doctors re - slow its progression and also warn the causes of Alzheimer’s and gargling, and rinsing cently linked Alzheimer’s disease doctors and patients to be more shape the search for more effec - F is ingrained at a to gum disease, the latest discov - aware of the risk.” tive treatments, or even a cure. young age in the hopes of keep - ery in a growing body of evidence Kamer and her team compared Already, brain specialist Mony ing their teeth sparkling white tying bacterial infections that ele - 18 patients with early signs of de Leon, director of the NYU and armed against decay. But a vate inflammatory molecules in Alzheimer’s to 16 patients with Center for Brain Health, has inte - new study suggests that these sim - the brain to Alzheimer’s, which normal brain function and dis - grated Kamer’s findings into his ple acts, which take just a few more than five million Americans covered a sharp difference. While hunt for biological markers for minutes each day, might also help suffer from. Earlier research at the 72 percent of the Alzheimer’s the disease. NYU / SPRING 2009 / 17 P H O T O S C O U R T E S Y H I V B I G D E A IN L N Y C AN ONLINE SOAP OPERA CENTERS ON THE TRIALS OF A prevention YOUNG GAY MAN WHO FEARS HE MIGHT BE HIV-POSITIVE. OUT OF THE CLINIC WITH HIV CASES SOARING, RESEARCHERS BRING FACTS—AND FREE SCREENINGS—TO THE GAY HOOKUP SCENE by Alex Cotton / GSAS ’08 t’s after midnight on a Sat - The owner of this voice is tional average—doctors and re - urday and the West Side Demetre Daskalakis, a physician searchers are increasingly offering Club in New York City’s and assistant professor of infectious information and screenings to I Chelsea neighborhood is diseases at the NYU School of those most at risk at the actual sites getting crowded. Men in Medicine, who runs the first-ever of hookups, whether it’s bath - towels wander through a dimly lit HIV testing venue at a New York houses or gay Internet dating sites. labyrinth of narrow hallways as bathhouse. Though long a part of In a private room located at the techno music throbs. Breaking off the underground sex scene in the back of the club, Daskalakis ad - from the crowd, two men enter a United States, as well as nodes of ministers rapid HIV tests that de - cramped room with blank walls the HIV epidemic, until now no liver results in 20 minutes. The and a bare mattress and shut the one had brought testing into a idea is to provide much-needed door. It’s business as usual, until New York club. But as the rate of services and collect groundbreak - the music suddenly stops. “Wel - infections continues to climb ing data, such as whether or not come to the West Side Club,” says among gay men—a study by the these men discuss their HIV status a cheerful voice over the speakers. city’s Department of Health and with partners. “Other cities have “For free, confidential HIV test - Mental Hygiene showed New been doing HIV testing in bath - ing, just follow the arrows….” York’s rate was three times the na - houses, but not in a structured, ac - ademic way,” says Daskalakis, who, disturbing statistics: 3.6 percent of professor Francine Shuchat Shaw “learning only occurs through dressed head to ankles in black, the men are HIV-positive and, at the Steinhardt School of Cul - failure,” from theorists like the with a full beard, shaved head, and while a majority of the bathhouse ture, Education, and Human De - Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget. So silver sneakers, blends well with clients had unsafe sex in the past velopment. Shaw and Mary Ann far, an online viewer survey the club-like vibe. three months, only 17 percent have Chiasson, a vice president for re - suggests that after watching the Since he started in 2006, discussed their HIV status with search and evaluation at the non - video, people are more likely Daskalakis has tested nearly 1,400 their partners. “Notice how quiet profit Public Health Solutions, to get tested for HIV or disclose people, both bathhouse regulars it gets when the music stops,” he co-wrote and produced a video their status. Chiasson hopes to con - and an Internet crowd he has found says. “There’s not a lot of talking soap opera titled “HIV is Still a firm this through an ongoing by advertizing on gay hookup Web going on in those rooms.” Big Deal,” which premiered rigorous, randomized-controlled sites that post his messages for free. In fact, half of his clients don’t come for the bathhouse at all; they “Traditional HIV prevention methods have failed. just want to get tested. Daskalakis I think anything that pushes the envelope and believes that this is because he of - tries something new –to make it entertaining fers a judgment-free environment. “By putting it in one of the most or sexy –is worthwhile,” Daskalakis says. stigmatized venues in the city, it kind of neutralizes the stigma,” he Ending a certain silence is the on their Web site in June 2008. trial. “We’re trying to get it out says. And he has uncovered some goal of another project started by The story follows the misadven - there as much as we can,” she says. P tures of Josh, a “We’ve marketed it to gay porn H O T O young man on the sites, hookup sites, anywhere we © J A C make in Green - can.” The soap, which was filmed Q U E L wich Village. In the at various locations around Man - I N E D first episode, Josh hattan and Brooklyn with actors I M I L I finds a date, Eric, recruited through Craigslist, was A on the Internet, featured on the PBS show and after sharing In the Life , a documentary series many drinks at a that explores the gay experience. bar, stumbles back But these successes are just first to Eric’s apartment. steps in a long race. Daskalakis en - The following visions branching out to private morning, he finds a sex parties, because the bathhouse cabinet full of HIV is, he believes, “the least under - medication in ground of the underground Eric’s bathroom. scenes.” Shaw and Chiasson hope An uncomfortable to further Josh’s saga in subsequent confrontation en - episodes, introducing more char - sues and, after a acters and raising related issues, period of denial such as depression, the dangers of and missed doctors’ other sexually transmitted infec - appointments, the tions, and the difficulty of staying second episode healthy on antiretroviral therapy .In ends as Josh gets the the meantime, Chiasson, who is results from an also an associate professor of clini - HIV test. cal epidemiology at Columbia Uni - To tailor the versity’s Mailman School of Public script to young gay Health, awaits the results of her men, they drew study. And Daskalakis continues to on Chiasson’s sur - put in late hours at the West Side vey data to create Club, keeping his clinic door open realistic characters, until 2 AM . “Traditional HIV pre - and Shaw’s expert - vention methods have failed,” he ise in educational says. “I think anything that pushes media to craft a nar - the envelope and tries something BY VISITING BATHHOUSES AND ADVERTISING ON HOOKUP WEB SITES, DEMETRE DASKALAKIS HAS rative that incorpo - new—to make it entertaining or PROVIDED HIV TESTS FOR NEARLY 1,400 MEN. rated ideas such as sexy—is worthwhile.” NYU / SPRING 2009 / 19 K M R U I A R P A L T A E R N T A N L E P C N IN E N D Y A Y H C the insider NYU FACULTY, STAFF, AND ALUMNI BEST OFFER UP THEIR FAVORITES OF NE W YORK by Renée Alfuso / CAS ’06 P TAKE A BREAK FROM SPRING CLEANING TO ENJOY SOME ITALIAN H they turn it on, it’s just one of the of Italian. 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Each have flocked to the festival, and it tender. In 2007, she created a spring, it temporarily transforms has screened over 1,100 films year-round industry department T the neighborhood into a giant from more than 80 countries. It to put those who acquire films di - playground where movies come has also generated more than $530 rectly in touch with the artists to life—blankets and lawn chairs million in economic activity for who make them. That same year, lined the Hudson for a lavish luau lower Manhattan. 34 films that premiered at when the animated comedy Surf’s The purpose of most film fes - TriBeCa were acquired for distri - Up screened, and thousands joined tivals, however, is not just to bution—almost double the num - in a zombie dance disco to cele - screen movies but to sell films to ber from the previous year. brate the 25th anniversary of distributors and reach the broadest Documentaries have found the Michael Jackson’s Thriller . of audiences. With this in mind, most success, with Taxi to the Dark There’s also the basketball shoot - Jane Rosenthal (GAL ’77), who Side taking home the 2008 Oscar UR ing contests and football theme co-founded TriBeCa with and Pray the Devil Back to Hell E EACH SPRING, TRIBECA TAKES OVER THE STREETS OUTSIDE THE FESTIVAL’S FILM SCREENINGS WITH (COUNTERCLOCKWISE) PERFORMERS, GAMES, AND A DRIVE-IN ON THE HUDSON. landing on the short list this year was able to separate itself from its or exposed,” adds Sharon Badal cus on its community audience. after both premiered at TriBeCa. uptown neighbor. The New (TSOA ’80, GAL ’92), who pro - This year’s festival kicks off with “Our birth was about what we York Film Festival, which The grams short films for the festival the world premiere of Woody could do for our community, so New York Times has described as in addition to her role as associate Allen’s Whatever Works , which that will always be our roots,” “elitist,” selects just 28 features teacher at the Tisch School of the marks his cinematic return to New Rosenthal says. But the festival is each year with no competitive Arts. Those voices come from all York after shooting his last four making its name by striking an un - categories or prizes. In contrast, over the world, in foreign films films abroad. And there are still usual balance among the fun, art, TriBeCa recognizes outstanding that would otherwise have a diffi - special neighborhood events like and business of film. films with an array of awards for cult time reaching U.S. audiences, the TriBeCa Drive-In outdoor Seven years old, TriBeCa is still features, shorts, and documen - but also from the festival’s own screenings and the Family Festival the new guy amidst a sea of well- taries, and a handful of prizes for backyard with community-based Street Fair, where costumed char - established film festivals: Cannes films made in or about New York. cinema like those discovered acters and performers roam along began back in 1946, the New For viewers, the NYFF feels through the TriBeCa All Access rows of tents offering local food, York Film Festival is approaching like a private Upper West Side program, which connects film - arts and crafts, puppet and magic its 50th run, and even the hip in - cocktail soiree to TriBeCa’s rau - makers from underrepresented shows, and face painting. “[Here] die-fest Sundance started out as cous downtown block party, groups with industry professionals. you don’t have to just be an in - the United States Film Festival in where the box office hit Star Wars As they’ve found their equilib - dustry insider to have access to the 1978, before Robert Redford Episode II: Attack of the Clones pre - rium over the years, Rosenthal world of the film festival,” Rosen - transformed it years later. The miered alongside the chick-flick says, the festival has refocused its thal says. “Anybody can come.” media was quick to compare Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sister - program by cutting down the And this won’t change because TriBeCa to these predecessors hood , just blocks from the Oscar- number of features it screens to 85 while TriBeCa is finding its place, and early on criticized it for being nominated Norwegian film Elling from as many as 174 in 2006. it hasn’t lost the spirit of why it too broad and lacking a clear during the inaugural festival. “It’s Many critics took note of the came into being. Rosenthal ex - enough identity. “We had so New York and there’s not just one change, as Stephen Holden of The plains: “As there were steel work - much focus on us and everybody type of filmgoer here,” director of New York Times wrote last year, ers and firefighters and police who was looking at us and saying, programming David Kwok ex - “A sign of the festival’s confidence did their jobs, as filmmakers, the ‘What are you going to be? What plains. “You have your cinephiles, is its willingness to shrink. No only thing we knew how to do are you going to be? ’ ” says Rosen - but you also have the recreation - longer does it project the panicky was to put on a show.” thal, adding that it took years al filmgoer, so our hope is to be sense of an event grabbing too be fore Sundance established itself able to cross those audiences.” many things offered to it in a mad The 2009 TriBeCa Film Festival with the 1989 screening of sex, “The key is to have as many scramble to demonstrate its size runs from April 22-May 3. For the lies, and videotape . voices as you can and especially and importance.” full lineup, visit www.tribecafilm Right away, though, TriBeCa voices that are not often explored What hasn’t changed is the fo - .com/festival. P H O T O S C O U R T E S Y T H E T R I B E C A F I L M F E S T I V A L LEFT: MICHAEL JACKSON’S THRILLER COMES TO LIFE WITH A ZOMBIE DANCE DISCO. RIGHT: FESTIVAL CO-FOUNDERS ROBERT DE NIRO (RIGHT) AND JANE ROSENTHAL, WHO HAS PRODUCED MANY OF THE ACTOR’S FILMS, INCLUDING MEET THE PARENTS . NYU / SPRING 2009 / 23 C U L T UR E documentary A House Reunited LEFT : TO ESCAPE SUBURBAN SPRAWL, A NEW FILM FOLLOWS THE MOVE OF A SOUTHERN MIDWAY PLANTATION WAS TRUCKED TO QUIETER PASTURES. RIGHT : HISTO - PLANTATION—AND RECKONS WITH ITS COMPLICATED PAST RIAN ROBERT HINTON (LEFT) AND FILMMAKER GODFREY CHESHIRE by Kathryn Robertson / CAS ’09 CONSIDER THE MOVE’S MEANING. R I n 2004, historian Robert home, which was now lapped by a with remarkable empathy, wit, graveyard where Hinton's rela - G H T P Hinton received a nervous new highway and suburban subdi - and learning,” and New York mag - tives were buried were testaments H O T O voicemail from one Godfrey visions, was to hoist the 280-ton azine named it runner-up for best to what they endured. “My peo - © C O Cheshire, a filmmaker and building onto wheels and slowly documentary film of 2008. ple built the house, and I wanted N R A D I R critic based in New York roll it to a new, nearby resting Central to the film is the ten - it to be preserved as proof of their I C H City. In a lilting North Carolinian place. Cheshire knew that he could sion between the perspectives of labor and their skill,” he says. “As A R D J accent, Cheshire, who is white, not tell the home’s full story with - Cheshire, the writer, director, and long as it exists, no one can say that O R D A explained that he had seen Hinton’s out discussing slavery. He needed co-producer, and Hinton, chief they weren’t enslaved.” N recent letter to the editor in The Hinton’s help, both as a scholar and historian and associate producer. In a final scene, Cheshire’s New York Times Book Review , in as someone intimately connected For Cheshire, and many of his rel - cousin hosts an uncommon and which he talked about growing up to Midway. atives, the film was an opportuni - unlikely family reunion at Midway, black in Raleigh. He was working The resulting documentary, ty to indulge in nostalgia, to revel now located three miles north of on a project related to a plantation Moving Midway , presents a region in seven generations of family lore the original site on a spread of 46 near there called Midway. Could full of complexity, emotion, and about ghosts and outsize charac - acres. “I would like to think there’ll they talk? quirk as it follows the home’s ters. Though the house was built be further contacts between the Hinton knew Midway Planta - physical move and contemplates in 1848, it stood on land granted two branches of the family and tion; he’d long suspected his the mythology surrounding these to the family by the English crown maybe even some shared reunions grandfather had been born a slave icons of the Old South and the liv - in 1739. “As a kid, it was fun for in the future,” Cheshire says. “I feel there around 1860 and been giv - ing legacy of slavery. (During the me to go out there on the week - a strong kinship, literally, through en the surname of its owners, the project, filmmakers discovered ends,” he remembers. “The place our shared interest in family his - Hintons. Intrigued, he invited another branch of black Hintons had an old and magical feeling.” to ry.” Both he and Hinton con - Cheshire to his office in NYU’s who, because of a liaison between The project linked Hinton sider the film just the first words of Africana Studies department, and an owner and a plantation cook, with a past not so easily retraced. a longer, more difficult conversa - quickly realized that he was sitting are not only descendents of Mid - “I was walking on floors that my tion, which they plan to continue, before the descendant of his way’s former slaves but also blood great grandmother had swept,” he perhaps in a book, about Midway grandfather’s former owner. He relations of Cheshire and his kin.) explains. “I slept in a bed she had and the reconciliation between the wanted to dislike him but instead On balance too is the South’s probably made a thousand times, family’s black and white branches. found himself gladly pulled into hunger for both modernization, in and I ate at a table where she had “I want to encourage people— Cheshire’s new film about the re - the form of strip malls and inter - served the white folks, and so, black and white—to talk about location of the 160-year-old plan - states, and its antebellum past. The while it wasn’t an ideal situation, slavery,” Hinton says. “Because tation house. Cheshire’s cousin, New York Times ’ A.O. Scott wrote it felt like I was reconnecting.” neither want to, and we can’t make the current owner, had decided that the film “takes up the agonies The big house, the land once sense out of racism unless we talk that the best way to preserve the and ironies of Southern history filled with tobacco fields, and the about slavery. ” 24 / SPRING 2009 / NYU gallery view CREDITS A REAL HOME NYU STARS LIGHT UP FOR ART RED CARPETS AND THE SILVER SCREEN by Megan Doll / GSAS ’08 P H O T O C O U Not known for its art scene, Averaging five to six exhibi - R T E S the Upper West Side is never - tions a year, Eley’s gallery offers an Y W A R theless where Susan Eley eclectic stable of early- to mid-ca - N E R B (STEINHARDT ’91) decided reer artists, from North America, R O S . to open her eponymous art Europe, Asia, and Latin America. P I C T U gallery in 2006 Her mission also R E S —in the town includes facilitat - WATCHMEN house where she ing in-depth dis - lives. “I wanted cussions about the ALEC BALDWIN (TSOA ’94) took Ghost , penned the screenplay for more of a home art being displayed. home Best Actor statues from the The Time Traveler’s Wife , starring environment, A 2007 show, for Emmy, Golden Globe, and Screen Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana… something more example, which Actors Guild awards for his role as BILLY CRUDUP (TSOA ’94) intimate,” Eley was titled “Europe the overbearing network exec brought graphic novel super hero says of the sa - Redrawn” and ex - Jack Donaghy on NBC’s 30 Dr. Manhattan to life in last lon-style setting, hibited the pho - Rock … Set decorator VICTOR J. month’s Watchmen and will be where the for - tography of Jay ZOLFO (TSOA ’85) won Best back in theaters this July along- mer profession - Hochheiser, also Achievement in Art Direction at side Johnny Depp and Christian al ballet dancer featured a talk from the Academy Awards for his work Bale in Michael Mann’s Public En - acts as an articu - critic Stephen on The Curious Case of Benjamin emies … Fellow alumni CHANCE late yet approachable Virgil, Perloff, the founder and editor of Button … For her film The Betrayal KELLY (WSC ’90) and JOHN guiding visitors through the of - The Photo Review . “The average (Nerakhoon) , nominated for Best LAVELLE (TSOA ’04) can be seen ten intimidating world of con - person tends to stay in a gallery for Documentary at both the Oscars in this summer’s remake of The temporary art. “I wanted to be a half an hour, 45 minutes,” Eley and Film Independent’s Spirit Taking of Pelham 123 , which fea - gallerist who could really offer says. “I really want people to come Awards, ELLEN KURAS (GAL ’88, tures Denzel Washington as an service, so everybody who walks in and stay and have a cup of cof - ’90) followed a refugee family NYC subway dispatcher caught in here gets me full-on.” fee and ask questions. ” from Laos for 23 years… Writer- up in a hostage situation… Red CHARLIE KAUF - P turned-director Tails , which George Lucas has H O T MAN O (TSOA ’80) was honored been develop ing since 1989 and S : T O with the Robert Altman Award for details the Tuskegee Airmen, the P © M Synecdoche, New York at the Spirit first African-American pilots who A R I A Awards, where he also picked up flew in World War II, will finally P A S S ETHAN REIFF JOHN RIDLEY A Best First Feature… be written by (GAL R O T CYRUS VORIS GLEN WHITMAN T (TSOA ’86) and ’87)… (GSAS I ; B O T (TSOA ’85) co-wrote last sum - ’00) puts the science in sci-fi T O M mer’s Kung Fu Panda , which thriller Fringe , working behind the C O U R earned an Oscar nod for Best Ani - scenes to provide research T E S Y mated Feature, as well as Ridley and plausibility to the new Fox S U S A N Scott’s upcoming Robin Hood , star - show… Former Queer Eye for the E L E TED Y ring Russell Crowe… Director Straight Guy cast member F I N TOM HOOPER ALLEN E (TSOA ’94) scored (GSAS ’90) is the host of A R T an Emmy nomination for the HBO two new shows on the Food Net - miniseries John Adams and next work: Chopped and Food Detec - turns to the big screen with an tives … NICK SPANGLER (TSOA adaptation of the John Steinbeck ’07) returned to the off-Broadway best-seller East of Eden … Writer show The Fantasticks after winning BRUCE JOEL RUBIN SUSAN ELEY'S UPPER WEST SIDE GALLERY OFFERS FIVE TO SIX CONTEMPO - (WSC ’65), the $1 million prize on CBS’s The RARY EXHIBITIONS EACH YEAR. best known for the 1990 film Amazing Race .— Renée Alfuso NYU / SPRING 2009 / 25 urban art GRAFFITI INNOVATION JAMES POWDERLY WALKS THE LINE BETWEEN INVENTOR AND “ANTIGOVERNMENT ZEALOT” by Kolby Yarnell P H O T O S © G R A F F I T I R E S E A R C H L A B JAMES POWDERLY OUTFITS GRAFFITI ARTISTS WITH PLAYFUL OPEN SOURCE TECHNOLOGY, SUCH AS L.A.S.E.R. TAG, WHICH USES A LASER POINTER AND PROJECTOR. ike many artists, James passengers justifiably took the inci - chief-Making: A Conversation urban artist into the 21st century. Powderly (TSOA ’02) dent for a terrorist attack. Powder - about Rogue Artists, Pranksters, and After graduating from Tisch is in touch with his ly called it a “prank” and believes Other Trouble-Makers.” In keep - School of the Arts’ Interactive L inner adolescent. In a a little fear is good: “I think that’s ing with the night’s theme, Pow - Telecommunications Program in project called “Train a useful place to put someone in.” derly strolled in 15 minutes late and 2002, Powderly took a job at Hon - Bombing in Europe,” he helped Yet Powderly isn’t so eager to noted that he is not, and never has eybee Robotics. The company organize dozens of people in Linz, explore the usefulness of any fear he been, a graffiti artist, the label most worked on contracts for NASA and Austria, one evening to surround a experienced while in police custody often applied to him. In fact, his the military, but with the start of the city train and hurl magnets at it, ter - in China last summer, after being ar - work is far geekier: He writes com - Iraq war, Powderly felt conflicted. rifying both passengers and con - rested for “upsetting the public or - puter code, rigs fire extinguishers to “It was really hard to do good things ductors. Attached to these magnets der” during the 2008 Summer spray house paint on hard-to-reach for bad people,” he says. “There are were colorful LED lights, a Pow der - Olympics. Powderly spoke about surfaces, and fashions lasers that can so many auxiliary uses for a tech - ly invention called the “throwie,” the episode in December at an Eliz - project words onto buildings from nology.” This tough lesson has been which transformed the train into abeth Foundation for the Arts event far away. He’s a graffiti inventor, deeply entrenched in his work ever a moving Christmas tree. Some titled “DIY Law-Breaking & Mis - as it were, ushering the outlaw since. Whether it’s benign, like a 26 / SPRING 2009 / NYU magnet, or benevolent, like a fire ex - moments later called himself an questioning before the U.S. State killed my ass,” he says, tinguisher, what Powderly seems to “antigovernment zealot.” So long as Department arranged his release. adding that at the be demonstrating with his “re - you aren’t in marketing or advertis - He appreciates the irony that being moment he’s planning search” is that technologies have no in g— and especially if you’re a little American in China is both what to create 3-D models C fixed application. bit of a villai n— GRL will help you led to his arrest and what got him of the cell he was in. U In 2005, he was awarded a with your high-tech art project. out of jail much sooner than his Powderly will be trav - L residency at the Chelsea-based art That goal took him to Beijing cell mates. In hindsight, he said what eling for a number T and technology center Eyebeam, last August, to work with the he regrets mos t—more than the in - of projects this year UR where he met and collaborated organization Students for a Free terrogations, the money lost (they while also producing E with Evan Roth. During this resi - Tibet. He admits that he flew there charged him for his deportation the film GRL: The dency, they founded the Graffiti Complete First Season 2 . Research Lab (GRL), dedicated to The lab’s policy of turning down outfitting graffiti artists with tech - What Powderly seems to commercial work has become nologies for urban communication. be demonstrating with his financially more problematic They adhere strictly to an open “research” is that technologies for Powderly and Roth, so they source, anticapitalist philosophy. plan to do more projects with All of their ideas, from codes to paint have no fixed application. FAT Lab, the Free Art and Tech - guns to throwies, are up for grabs, nology space where GRL is locat - and GRL relies on art galleries without knowing much about ticket), and the fate of those who ed, including “assisted technology and dona tions for funding. On the the region’s troubled history, but were also arreste d— was his failure for disabled peopl e—with a graffi - GRL Web site, under the videos he was willing to help the group in the role of wily mischief- maker. ti twist.” Powderly is trying to that document each project, is a create a laser stencil to project the “I probably wouldn’t wear a kaffiyeh make the public domain a more link to instructions on how to do words “Free Tibet” in Tiananmen and sleeveless shirt again if I were playful, anarchic plac e— at least to it yourself. Square. The Chinese police, how - trying to go incognito,” he says. a point. “I might be a model, but “Only in the art world can you ever, had been monitoring his cell Going forward, Powderly not a role model,” he says. “If work without slavish dependence on phone calls and text messages, and is hoping to throw a little fear everyone was doing what we copyright,” says Powderly, who de - Powderly spent five days in jail, back at the Chinese government. are, it would be really hard to scribed his work as “neutral,” yet en during sleep deprivation and harsh “They are going to wish that they get attention.” BVS 8STT`Sg A 5]cZR ESZQ][S 1S\bS` Wa bVS UObSeOg b] BVS 8STT`Sg A 5]cZR ESZQ][S 1S\bS` # ESab 4]c`bV Ab`SSb Ob bVS Q]`\S` ]T EOaVW\Ub]\ A_cO`S >O`Y ;]\ROg4`WROg( ' O [ # ^ [ N AObc`ROg( O [ " ^ [ FOER’S MENTOR, JOYCE CAROL OATES, IS AN INSPIRATION IN HIS TEACHING. IN P R creative writing P H Wunderkind in O T O © A D A I M B E R R the Classroom Y N NOVELIST JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER DISCUSSES FICTION—AND HOW TO TEACH IT by Catherine Fata / CAS ’09 onathan Safran Foer With a second novel under his who is now 32 and, dressed in went from recep - belt ( Extremely Loud and Incredibly jeans and sporting a close-cropped T tionist to best-sell - Close , Mariner Books) and a work haircut, can easily pass for one of J ing and critically of nonfiction due out next year, his students. acclaimed author Foer has joined the faculty at NYU with the 2002 publication of his as a professor in the Graduate Cre - AS A TEACHER YOU MUST BE debut novel, Everything Is Illumi - ative Writing Program. And it REMINDED OF HOW MUCH nated (Harper Perennial), when he turns out that his pedagogical phi - EFFECT ONE OF YOUR was just 25 years old. Praised by losophy is as unorthodox as his TEACHERS—JOYCE CAROL the likes of Francine Prose and literary style. David Grumblatt, an OATES, WHOSE CLASS YOU John Updike and winner of the MFA candidate, recalls assign - TOOK AS AN UNDERGRAD AT Guardian First Book Award, the ments as varied as oral storytelling, PRINCETON—HAD ON YOU. National Jewish Book Award, and euology writing, and singing I would not have become a writer the New York Public karaoke. “[Foer’s class] was much if I hadn’t met her. She encour - Library Young Lions more focused on the process of aged me when there was very Fiction Award, the nov - writing, rather than the creation little to encourage. Really. I el announced the arrival of a finished piece,” Grumblatt didn’t know I wanted to be a of a brazen new talent says. “We were encouraged to ex - writer. I didn’t think that I was to be reckoned with. periment, to be playful, and to particularly talented. I wasn’t pro - The responses from crit - question how we approached our ducing work that was great. But ics were polarizing— own writing.” she felt like she saw something everything from hailing During his first semester on that was worth, you know, foster - him as a genius to call - campus last fall, NYU Alumni ing. And one lesson she helped ing his work gimmicky. Magazine caught up with Foer, me learn is that at that age, most people are very impressionable. back. And sometimes things have biblio file A few kind words or a few unkind to fall apart in order to come back words can really send somebody together in a way that’s good. But PET FOOD POLITICS: THE In her latest book, nutritionist Mar - into a different orbit. And she did it’s hard. And not only does each CHIHUAHUA IN THE COAL MINE ion Nestle chronicles how what that for me. writer face these problems differ - (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA started with a few telephone calls ently, but each project presents PRESS) about sick cats snowballed into the HO W CAN WRITIN G BE TAUGHT? different problems. MARION NESTLE largest food recall in American his - What people are born with, more PAULETTE GODDARD tory. Using official U.S. govern - than any talent, is stories: where DOES WHAT YOU READ INFLU - PROFESSOR OF NUTRITION, ment documents, interviews with their families come from, how ENCE WHAT YOU WRITE? FOOD STUDIES, AND doctors and researchers, and In - they talked around the dinner Everything influences what PUBLIC HEALTH ternet blog chatter, the best-sell - table, or didn’t talk, the conflict of one writes—everything interest - STEINHARDT ing author tracks contaminated their childhoods, things like that. ing does. I’m rereading a book, ingredients from China to Cana - In terms of my approach, it’s not which is maybe my favorite da’s Menu Foods company pet to perfect pieces of writing but of all books. It’s called Life? or food—and eventually into barnyard rather to encourage students to Theater? by a woman named feed and the human food chain. think about writing in ways they Charlotte Salomon. I only know Though investigations by the FDA might not have before.… There’s about it because I happened to and USDA eventually uncovered a plenty of time to perfect your walk into a museum in Amster - lapse in oversight, the episode is a craft, whereas when you’re a stu - dam where I saw it. It’s halfway cautionary tale about the food- dent, it’s a good time to have your between paintings and a book— safety hazards of globalization. As basic notions of writing changed. just a total work of art. Every Nestle notes, “Even our most skep - So a lot of my assignments test the time I open it, it inspires me tical colleagues could see that pet boundaries of fiction. but also totally debilitates me be - foods were the proverbial canary— cause it’s so good. in this instance, the Chihuahua—in WHAT’S YOUR WRITING the coal mine.” REGIMEN? BOTH OF YOUR NOVELS ARE —Kevin Fallon That’s like saying, “What’s your STORIES FROM DIFFERENT regimen for getting out of a burn - TIME PERIODS INTERTWINED ing building?” I mean, stop, drop, INTO ONE. IS THERE A and roll is generally a good idea. REASON YOU CHOSE TO D O OUT OF THE BLUE: A HISTORY Steve Marshburn Sr. sat at his Be close to the floor is generally a THEM THIS WAY? OF LIGHTNING: SCIENCE, bank-teller window clutching a good idea. Don’t breathe smoke. Sometimes there’s no reason for SUPERSTITION, AND AMAZING metal date stamp when a lightning Don’t catch fire. things in writing. That’s what’s STORIES OF SURVIVAL bolt suddenly zapped the bank’s Writing is a kind of emergency, nice about writing, nice about art. (DELACORTE PRESS) drive-up window microphone, it’s kind of a horrible thing to It’s not responsible to reason in JOHN S. FRIEDMAN which, by chance, was pointed at have to write. But I think ulti - the same way that everything else GSAS ’74 his spine. “It felt as if someone had mately each person finds his own in life is. hit me with a baseball bat,” Marsh - way or her own way out of it. My burn tells John S. Friedman in Out regimen has changed a lot since I YOUR BOOKS HAVE BEEN of the Blue . Tracing the history of started. And I don’t really even HIGHLY PRAISED, BUT ALSO lightning through Greek mytholo - have one now. I like trying to HARSHLY CRITICIZED. WHAT IS gy, scientific study, and even the start in the morning, and I like THAT LIKE? Harry Potter series, Friedman, a trying to spend three or four hours It was just, like, a matter of fact. contributor to The Nation and an a day doing it, but it doesn’t al - It didn’t hurt my feelings or any - Oscar-winning documentary film - ways happen like that. thing like that. I’d rather people maker, unearths some of the mys - like what I do than dislike what tery surrounding this natural AND WHEN IT’S A STRUGGLE? I do. But as long as people are phenomenon. Most gripping are It’s really always a struggle. And I having very strong reactions, the stories of survivors, such as don’t say that flippantly. It really then I’m happy. Because what I Marshburn and a mountaineer is always a struggle. And how do don’t want someone to say is, group struck while climbing the I work through it? Sometimes I “It was a nice book.” I want some - Tetons in 2003, which underline just work through it. Sometimes I one to say that I really connected the fragility of human life and how— just put it down and go away and with it or I really hated it. And I out of the blue—it can be ripped come back. Sometimes I have to would prefer the former, but I from our grasp. put it down for a really long time, would take the latter over a luke - —Jackie Risser like weeks or months, and come warm response. NYU / SPRING 2009 / 29 fiction WHA T CAME BEFORE FOLLOWING AN ACCLAIMED MEMOIR AND FILM ADAPTATION, JAMES MCBRIDE PENS A HARRIET TUBMAN – INSPIRED SLAVE NARRATIVE by Adelle Waldman or James McBride, his childhood in Brooklyn as an old-fashioned one of 12 black siblings raised aesthetic is no mere by his white, widowed, Jewish F decoration. The mother. He followed that up vintage typewriter with the 2001 novel Miracle that sits on his desk could well at St. Anna (Riverhead), made into be the one on which Ralph Elli - last fall’s film by Spike Lee (TSOA son toiled away in a Harlem base - ’82, HON ’98). The story, which ment in the early 1950s, but it’s the author himself adapted as a where McBride works, often after screenplay, follows a small group penning a first draft in longhand. of soldiers from the U.S. Army’s The typewriter—like the man all-black division during World himself, who is often dressed in War II who are stranded behind suit, tie, and fedora—may seem enemy lines in a remote Italian vil - anachronistic in the sleek, new of - lage and become objects of fasci - “The minute you start to judge people as a creative writer, you are dead creatively.” fice at 20 Cooper Square, where nation to the townspeople. With McBride is a distinguished writer prose that gains force in in residence at NYU’s Arthur L. large part because of its restraint, Carter Journalism Institute. But a the author rarely comments overt - classical elegance is appropriate ly on the potent injustice that for a man who keeps turning his underlies his story. eye to the past. McBride stepped even further easiness as whites, aware of the miles.” McBride also depicts a so - McBride, who is also a profes - into the past for his most recent tenuousness—both morally and ciety riddled with tensions be - sional jazz saxophonist and award- novel, Song Yet Sung (Riverhead). pragmatically—of their dominant tween not just white and black but winning composer, first gained Released in paperback in January, position, live in fear that their slaves also wealthy plantation owners and literary fame with his best-selling it tells the story of slaves living on will revolt, or escape to freedom in struggling oystermen, and he cap - 1996 memoir, The Color of Water Maryland’s Eastern shore in the neighboring Pennsylvania. “How tures the lawlessness of life in this (Riverhead). Published in more 1850s. The haunting and complex close it all seemed,” one widowed remote, swampy, and superstitious than 16 languages, it chronicled portrait teems with a sense of un - slave owner thinks. “Just eighty region, a peninsula isolated from 30 / SPRING 2009 / NYU JAMES M CBRIDE HAS WORN THE But on the drive to Washing - biblio file HATS OF MEMOIRIST, NOVELIST, ton, D.C., something came over JAZZ SAXOPHONIST, COMPOSER, AND SCREENWRITER. him. “I just went to the left,” he HEAVY METAL ISLAM: ROCK, In Heavy Metal Islam , says. “I was trolling for ideas.” RESISTANCE, AND THE Mark LeVine canvass - IP N He knew that Harriet Tubman STRUGGLE FOR THE SOUL es much of the Muslim was born on the Eastern shore, OF ISLAM world, from Morocco R but when he got there he was (THREE RIVERS PRESS) to Pakistan, to exam - I N struck by the palpable history of MARK L EVINE ine a burgeoning—and the region. “You can smell it, GSAS ’99 potentially democra - T you can feel it when you are tizing—movement of down there,” he says. “You young metalheads. learn silence. You learn to listen Here metal, as well as hip-hop, to the land.” punk, and reggae, is used not so The story that emerged was much as an anthem of teenage loosely inspired by Tubman her - angst but to protest authoritarian - self. McBride’s protagonist, Liz ism (as in the case of an Iranian Spocott, is a beautiful slave who rocker) and to celebrate Islam (one escapes from the plantation Turkish band recorded the Muslim owner who has been raping her testament of faith over a “driving since she was a teenager. Liz, hard-rock groove”). In detailing like Tubman, suffered a head this subculture, LeVine, a guitarist injury, and it leads her to have and professor of modern Middle prophetic dreams, one of which Eastern history at the University enables her to free 14 slaves of California–Irvine, paints a pic - trapped in an attic. Their escape ture rarely seen by outsiders: a sets off a chain of events that en - generation impassioned by their danger all the blacks in the area, love of both Islam and the secular including those vital to the op - music of the West. eration of the “gospel train,” as —Rhett Bixler the Underground Railroad is called. What follows is both a suspenseful chase and a medita - ONLY LOVE CAN BREAK From college kids sloshing through tion on what it means to be a YOUR HEART raw sewage at Woodstock ’99 to a good person in a society riddled (THE NEW PRESS) company charged with demolish - with moral contradictions. DAVID SAMUELS ing a landmark Las Vegas casino, McBride says that he is inter - ADJUNCT ASSISTANT David Samuels’ collection of sto - ested in bringing out the hu - PROFESSOR ries paints brief portraits of the manity in all of his characters, ARTHUR L. CARTER relatively unexamined lives of a even the ones whose livelihood JOURNALISM INSTITUTE wide-ranging cast of Americans. is derived from chasing down The essays, each previously pub - “human chattel.” “The minute lished in magazines such as Harp - you start to judge people as a er ’s and The New Yorker , combine creative writer, you are dead animated reporting, personal re - creatively,” he says. “Judgments flection, and social analysis, P H harkening back to New Journalism O are the cork stops of ideas, and if T O © you are a person who lives by greats such as Joan Didion. Al - S A R A his wits, then you’d be foolish to though individual characters—from H L E environmentalists celebrating the E put a cork stop in the bottle.” N And for McBride, his bottle destruction at the Seattle WTO the rest of the East Coast by the of ideas is full of the past: neg - protests to workers at a Nevada Chesapeake Bay. lected corners of history rife nuclear test site—get limited page It was the place itself that orig - with human drama on both the time, Samuels writes with a com - inally attracted McBride. Feeling internal and societal levels. It’s passion that gives readers just stuck in his writing, he set off one no wonder, then, that the man enough information to care about day from his home in Bucks Coun - himself—with his typewriter them, if only for a moment. ty, Pennsylvania, to visit Ford’s and fedora—pays homage in his —Padraic Wheeler Theatre, where Lincoln was shot. person to what came before. NYU / SPRING 2009 / 31 poetry travel writing Diagnosis AMERICANS by Sharon Olds Erich Maria Remarque Professor at NYU ABROAD IN DAPHNE BEAL’S DEBUT NOVEL, AN ADVENTUROUS YOUNG WOMAN COMES OF AGE IN NEPAL By the time I was six months old, she knew something by Eryn Loeb / GSAS ’07 was wrong with me. I got looks on my face n 1989, eager for a break her time there and to untangle she had not seen on any child from her theory-obsessed, some of her thoughts from that hyperpolitical college cam - early trip, as well as subsequent vis - in the family, or the extended family, I pus, Daphne Beal (GSAS its to the region. The result ap - or the neighborhood. My mother took me in ’98) spent a year living in peared last summer: In the Land of Nepal and quickly fell under its No Right Angles (Anchor), Beal’s to the pediatrician with the kind hands, spell. Ending up there, she says, gorgeous, stirring first novel. was “a bit of dumb luck,” but At its center is Alex, a 20-year- a doctor with a name like a suit size for a wheel: as she studied and trekked through old Midwestern woman traveling the mountainous country, its beau - through Nepal on leave from Hub Long. My mom did not tell him tiful landscape and suffused college, and the prickly, intense what she thought in truth, that I was Possessed. sense of spirituality began to friendships she forms with a ease her restlessness. “And I really young Nepali woman named Maya It was just these strange looks on my face— loved that it had a stronger and with Will, an older expat oral tradition than a literary American on an endless quest for he held me, and conversed with me, tradition,” Beal remembers. “Even enlightenment—which he seeks then I knew that I wanted to be a mostly through a parade of young, chatting as one does with a baby, and my mother writer.” attractive women. The three con - said, She’s doing it now! Look! After she returned to the Unit - spire, dream, and drift apart over a ed States and graduated from period of eight years, culminating She’s doing it now! and the doctor said, Brown University, the experience in a fraught reunion in Bombay. kept a tight hold on her. Over the Throughout the book, Alex What your daughter has years, as Beal pursued a journalistic wrestles with what it means to career, she thought about it all the be an outsider in the place that’s is called a sense of humor. Ohhh, she said, and took me “There’s a great kind of narcissism back to the house where that sense would be tested to being 20 that’s fun—and also and found to be incurable. fun to grow out of.” time. “It was almost like being ob - captured her heart. It’s a struggle sessed with someone you’d once that Beal based largely on feelings been in love with,” she says. While of her own. “I never would have some of her journalism work fo - written the story from the point of cused on the region, Beal felt she view of Maya,” she says, conjec - could engage more deeply with turing that Alex is about Excerpted from One Secret Thing by Sharon Olds. Copyright © 2008 her own understanding of it “40 percent me and 60 percent by Sharon Olds. Excerpted by permission of Knopf, a division of through fiction. Writing a story everyone I ever met there.” Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt based in Nepal seemed a good ex - Nepal’s landscape is a character may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing cuse to dwell on the memory of in itself, and as Alex, Maya, and from the publisher. 32 / SPRING 2009 / NYU P H O T O biblio file © K E V I N UNCOMMON ARRANGEMENTS: Social critic Katie S T U R SEVEN PORTRAITS OF MARRIED Roiphe casts an eye M A IP N N LIFE IN LONDON LITERARY on seven “marriages CIRCLES 1910–1939 à la mode,” the uncon - R (DIAL PRESS) ventional, fashionably I KATIE ROIPHE experimental rela - N ASSISTANT PROFESSOR tionships that prolif - T OF JOURNALISM erated among some ARTHUR L. CARTER British literati and JOURNALISM INSTITUTE artists from 1910 to WWII, and which helped to redefine the rules of mat - rimony. Using memoirs, letters, and personal accounts from a pantheon of writers, including a biting Vir - ginia Woolf, Roiphe dissects the less-than-holy unions of, among others, H.G. Wells and Rebecca West, and Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry. Though many of the partnerships could seem outré even today—open mar - riages and love triangles abound— they wrestle with the perennial tug of an idealized equality between the sexes and stiff traditional roles. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly called it “provocative, dishy, substantive, and fun.” —Christiana Molina THE GOOD THIEF In her fanciful debut novel, Hannah DAPHNE BEAL CREATES RICH CHARACTERS WHILE CRITIQUING THE EX-PAT EXPERIENCE. (DIAL PRESS) Tinti follows the fate of Ren, a one- HANNAH TINTI handed orphan and natural pick - Will climb mountains, bike ous red-light district, provided GSAS ’97 pocket in 19th-century New around Kathmandu, and hike plenty of fodder for her novel. England, after his greatest wish—to through pouring rain, Beal ren - “I’m happy, in my late thirties, to be adopted—comes true. But his ders it vividly, detailing the intox - figure out that what makes a good idylloffamilyblissisquicklydashed icating sensations of exploring a story in a fictional narrative also by his new father (a charming con) faraway place. “There’s a great makes a good story as a nonfic - and a growing circle of misfit kind of narcissism to being 20 tional narrative,” she says. “I don’t friends, from a drunken onetime that’s fun—and also fun to grow really think of myself as either a teacher to a chimney-climbing out of,” Beal reflects, describing novelist or a journalist; I think of dwarf. As their adventures careen both her characters and the spate myself as a writer. It’s all much from fraud to grave-robbing and of Western students who come of more melded than I once imag - worse, Ren’s sense of morality— age in foreign settings. ined it was.” beaten into him over 12 years in a In the mid-1990s Beal worked As for her next book? She’s still Catholic orphanage—is tested and at The New Yorker , an experience circling around the exact story, amended, even as the mystery she credits with honing her atten - but it will be set in the Midwest, mounts over his true identity. tion to detail. Her journalistic where she—like Alex—is origi - Though the premise recalls Dick - work proved an easy complement nally from. “The setting of rural ens, Tinti’s yarn, at times violent to writing fiction—an essay she northern Wisconsin is something and bizarre, is thoroughly original. reported for McSweeney’s about that I think about when I’m day - —Nicole Pezold Falkland Road, Bombay’s notori - dreaming,” she says. NYU / SPRING 2009 / 33 STERN FACULTY . s ’ o S n g L I o i s t A r F a e n , d . r t n e e n RUSH TO RESPOND e h l d e t n d , e i . e l g c P a n e R i g g t O r d a E C o e g t t m r L . a N WITH A PLAN— l o A e I o I T m s m i L C i e r n N E P p m a i A b t r u M N s p s I U I u b j . F u T AND WASHINGTON S s s . i Y R t U t R i s S 5 U e K e I 2 T g v r e S n N i a l l I a E N - e h 7 C d t R b LISTENS n t e 0 A o C r s W c o o 0 E e M B N M s by Jill Hamburg Coplan 2 ECONOM01.07Y- 03.07 04.07 : n Friday, September 12, Viral V. the biggest bankruptcy in American history. derpinning global commerce seized up for the Acharya sat beside boxes of “I had the instinct that evening: This is really same reason, and the Federal Reserve mount - belongings in his new Manhattan going to be a disaster,” Acharya says. “It was ed an emergency rescue of the world’s largest apartment. The finance professor like a movie, like something you read about insurance company, AIG. A few days later, Ohad just moved from London to in books.” Washington Mutual was seized by the FDIC. take a position at the Leonard N. Stern School He was right. By Monday, September 15, At Stern, the conversation in faculty meet - of Business, but he couldn’t even think Lehman had not only failed but a nearly in - ings, in the halls, and on blogs went into over - about unpacking. Instead, he sat glued to solvent Merrill Lynch had drive. Dean Thomas F. CNN and CNBC as a fast-moving global sold itself to Bank of Ameri - Cooley called for an emer - financial emergency unfolded. At the center ca, and the giants Morgan gency brainstorming session. was Lehman Brothers, the storied, 158-year- Stanley and Goldman Sachs The school’s Board of Over - old investment house, teetering on the verge were floundering near col - seers had asked him for a of collapse. lapse (and would soon con - response to the meltdown— For two years, Acharya, a bank regulation vert from high-flying something big, in writing. specialist and former academic adviser to the investment banks into bank “At a moment like this, at a Bank of England, had followed the simmering holding companies)—all be - business school, with the credit crisis, created when risky mortgages, cause their enormous stashes wealth of knowledge we have made to borrowers with poor credit histories, of complex, mortgage- gathered, one puts it all in went into default, taking dozens of so-called backed derivatives now ap - perspective,” Cooley says. “subprime” lenders down with them. But this peared to be practically The question he posed to his was drama of a different order: If Lehman failed, worthless. The next day, the faculty was simple: “What do with nearly $650 billion in assets, it would be money-market system un - we really need to do?” 34 / SPRING 2009 / NYU . - s - t n b e S S i s u s D e . s s . e v s N s o The new book g l c N n h i s i t U n x d e r n F O u o e n a l o t t l E . s s p T a u m y describes the r W l s s G p s b e e e e e D r t y o e l y l i e d - E a p t O u h r S n i e e r t t r b h H s o : r . growth, and t r m u S g a i o l d A o k D S L c r N n t - a n p n i e w p R i e e I N t n p a l f s t b k r A T o R i u b p r t i u u implosion, not i . A r ’ d s t e a r A s G c L s e e B n t n h L t E t e e t k m a s e r n d t b T v E c i L v c E O o g r i g e S a t , n t o p n a only of megabanks n g r t i L i t b a S o a l e O n e o B - R s r d i v r c t t a d A c i i n d A G n e y M e e r s E n D d e l l B e n r s E v e l I s e e h w a V s e i e but of the risky e S t r d l B u R o r e r R a S F h m c , I o t v d e n , E A r d E d g e e o e s p a E a e P e e g … t S O r n t n x h , i . S m g k d n - e t E i V t o e i shadow banking t e P d O r H I a s n c t r r r r r R u i r I r D s p a S a N C r S e o a a h e e a b , L G b h h o R B v s N D w s , - ’ t u a s . A h S N A e s s e Y s e a k n l N n k l t system they parked n i t R i r L e d C g n S r e c e e n U y h , g E i O E h n i l a a I t S s a e L t F h C e h I t u h D b s g h t L d f , b s w t e s I g a E S E g R E , L i e r h e i v e e outside the reach t s s F R I A e e h G o c c e n t z s h k k L n r R u t n n n P D E e e o n n H I m m l R o e E i e a r e v E e a a H r v a r r w r n o n n H M i F C F f m p T B B i o B v M S i T T f of regulators. C06.07 O08.07DE 09.07 R10.07 ED Wiley recently published their answers in National Economic Council. Dean Cooley that day. Richardson, a capital markets ex - the new book Restoring Financial Stability: How notes that Stern also sent galleys to “the peo - pert who runs Stern’s Salomon Center for the to Repair a Failed System. Edited by Acharya ple we know at the Fed,” the Bank of England, Study of Financial Institutions, managed the and financial economics professor Matthew and the most powerful policymakers on Capi - process. Richardson, and compiling 18 white papers tol Hill. The House Oversight Committee on Contributors gravitated to areas where authored by 33 scholars, the book describes the the bailout requested 10 copies. At press time, they’d done research and in many cases growth, and implosion, not only of megabanks when Geithner revealed new plans for the advised government. Some had worked on but of the risky shadow banking system they biggest overhaul of financial regulation since securities and derivatives exchanges, others parked outside the reach of regulators. It doc - the Great Depression, the book’s recommen - with central banks and public agencies, such uments how investment banks, insurers, hedge dations were much in evidence . “We have as the Federal Home Loan Bank. They’d funds, and others invested long-term, while had a role, for sure, in shaping the debate,” testified before Congress on the Savings & funding their holdings short-term—a pre - Cooley says. Loan crisis, rating agencies, and the 1999 scription for runs and instability. Ultimately, The book, like the crisis, was significant repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, the milestone the book lays out a new style of “systemic” for another reason: Academics, accustomed that tore down the wall among banks, financial regulation, designed to monitor and to spending years on major projects, had to de - brokerages, and investment manager s— defuse emerging dangers in today’s rapidly liver it to the publisher in just six weeks. To creating the megabank model that, the econ - shifting, deeply interconnected global get it rolling, professor Ingo Walter, vice dean omists would write in the book, had proven economy. of faculty, drew up a blueprint, created a fac - a failure. In February, the book was in the hands of ulty e-mail list called CrisisFac, and blasted an Throughout the month that they prepared President Obama’s economic tea m—Treasury announce ment soliciting contributions: “This the book, the Stern economists circulated Secretary Timothy F. Geithner and Lawrence is probably the most important event of our ideas in hundreds of e-mails. In the home H. Summers, who heads the White House’s lifetime.” Three dozen economists signed on stretch period of comments and revisions, NYU / SPRING 2009 / 35 m e S ’ . h t s E K , r . s S t e s E u A d e S i N p a Y t H i “This is e t r l C H n C u O r A e i c N I T e e T e % m A , , h h s n C t t B probably L P 8 r S G r C c e r A s e i e R R F i o , e v x l m U f A E L M O r O c o o r S o T i t a s H a N g L h R E M l O N e e e the most T M I F n . l p h e i P i R s t O f K S D A N e h Y . J m h O A n r , R T T t D n o F U k i s E o s E I D r . n i t d N E B E l n f e T k l n s o e n i i important R a g R s N e S L s n a N i S S m F b A b S n I s p s r w A t a p y s R 9 o a i L l D r K o c M s r B O 2 o i r E A h n l A M d S n I e $ d . N i a s o E m , C event g s t H e r T E A g t r r e T e P n B s e g o E R t r n n y . R r a H t a o Z i e O l u L E s r i a y n e a l a e I S S e g r y l h h o o h A e i v y r d T t e m s T s o l U r E s C T t h E t b a e / s n of our n 5 / l o t M e E i s a n r c 2 - S 2 i u 9 S f s L r h 2 a e r $ e n G 3 E h R g o n r B 2 a n 7 8 . . v I h I e r 6 i . n V a i t o a 1 e . i C o e $ S o r R N S t . 0 c s u r y $ f I . S g d n E e U lifetime .” - a i h e g e . N U 5 A l o U o t p t 8 0 A e e i t D N f m y a r x 5 A n h n n n s 2 U a A P b w F i F i 1 L i t I > VICE DEAN INGO WALTER i F $ c D e 01.08 03.08 07.08 09.07.08 09.15.08 a single economic question posed on the list - catastrophic losses. poorer, so that even fewer bought homes, serv generated 60 e-mails in 45 minutes, and The book narrates the years leading up to which sank related industries—from home these online debates, Acharya and Richardson the financial crisis, when easy availability of electronics to the building trades. Stocks fol - say, sometimes flourished at 4 AM . Just before credit fueled a housing bubble and a boom in lowed suit, creating a dangerous recessionary the dead line— while the crisis continued and lending during which loan standards plum - spiral. The Fed cut interest rates several times the United States doubled the funds com - meted. Banks packaged or “securitized” high- but couldn’t rev the economy. mitted to failing insurer AIG and spent $125 risk mortgages into trillions of dollars of Part of the problem was that rather than billion on equity stakes in major U.S. exotic, little-traded instruments, which were greasing the wheels of commerce by turning banks—the authors presented papers at nine bought and sold in an unregu lated, over-the- deposits into loans, the banks had acted back-to-back roundtables. Then Acharya counter marke t. Unlike with simpler deriva - like supersized, risky hedge funds. They ig - and Richardson pulled six all-nighters to fi - tives, such as futures and options, there was nored their own business models, Richardson nalize the manuscript. no central clearinghouse where everyone says. They were supposed to transfer risk by The book’s recommendations would end could see who’s trading what. Now, thanks in off-loading the complex mortgage securities up representing a collaborative agreement, part to the new book, that’s set to change. onto investors. Instead, the banks kept them reached through weeks of aggressive debate. As the underlying risky loans’ interest in-house, like time bombs ticking in the base - The most vociferous disagreements were rates ballooned, homeowners defaulted, and ment. Regulators were too weak to stop them over whether bankers’ pay should be the widely held, complex securities made from and seemed unable to meet the challenge once regulated and what role monetary policy those loans started weighing down Wall Street. the crisis hit. “You got the feeling the regula - should play during a bubble. While they dif - The mortgage-related derivatives, it turned tors didn’t have it all in control—that they were fered on these points, they did agree that fi - out, were now toxic and a gigantic problem caught without sufficient forewarning, were nancial institu tions that pose systemic risk for any bank that held them. Banking and maybe even in a state of panic,” Acharya says. should be forced to buy insurance against housing’s declines left Americans feeling “Some very natural responses policymakers 36 / SPRING 2009 / NYU L A r WHITE PAPER BRIEFS e p U a p HERE’S A PEEK AT A FEW KEY RECOMMENDATIONS: T T m , r U e s t • Regulating individual banks is no longer e S u - y A e t o r t i enough to ensure the safety and soundness of r a r E n M o e P a C m today’s globally interlinked system of behe - h i r s r s I a S t G e p moth financial institutions. Authors argue that O u s s T U E v . i r l g o e t S it’s time for what they call a special, dedicated R a e R h a m o T r H E t h t U v t e , regulator, under the auspices of the Federal i e S t d r E n o A A h i m a n C K r e t Reserve, to constantly monitor the soundness l l e C a F s d E B t e . L n o p r s I of these behemoths. That new regulato r should d Y R c S Y n e y a N . L , M Z n t . E a S s T g t e ; s y be able to continually measure risk system- a L D r I t E E n n m e A i N Y o E k d L e N N e E I h h wide and should not only gauge it with the sin - A d k c e v t m H E . A U e l r L n A F o H f s R T F L T o t gle, most commonly used ratio of capital to a u S d T e f d e s s f M S i R F n S l m Y n R h T n U risk-weighted assets, but a far more well- o - a i L t O e S m - u R T E N y r f , b L n s , m H ’ rounded approach that takes into account an e A s O e W t A C I L t t I i o e t F i Y n C i e - c s y G d I l M i N t t institution’s loans to deposits, insured de - o l k S A l I e r r r A r R l a i s E U m f S c o R a r a O K posits to assets, liquid bonds to assets, etc. h O S F R e m t h e o P e e r m D t E s N n i M - s h 5 h L t s E f r N t V d y A 8 f s R R N I E e o a f e V e 7 o i • Now that U.S. taxpayers are out $7 trillion in n e r L N t e M o S $ n R i o e f s A c m O E r t o guarantees to financial firms, the public will D E c S s e A n o r N u d t r n E L i i E i S m c U u c A c u e i demand that banks stop rewarding irresponsi - e r l O E r s m e v l e o h P G s N t B R M O a S M a b F s e M a ble behavior and short-term thinking with a outsized salaries and bonuses. The book sug - 09.16.08 gests long-term compensation contracts (rather than a salary cap, as President Obama announced in February) and other financial incentives to reward long-term thinking. • About one in 10 U.S. mortgages are delin - quent or in foreclosure. To prevent this statis - tic from ballooning even further, the authors call for modifying more mortgages, but in a new and improved way—before foreclosure and bankruptcy sets in. The snag here is that about 80 percent of troubled home loans have been sliced and diced thanks to securitization. To untangle them, the laws that protect lenders from modification must be repealed. And lenders need better incentives to modify loans, such as in exchange for restructuring loan terms, they would receive a share of any future appreciation in the property’s value. • Another concern is the $50-trillion-plus over-the-counter derivatives market, where no one knows precisely what the exposure is, where the danger is concentrated, or the values of the contracts. For the most widely traded derivatives, the authors advocate a centralized clearinghouse—as there is now for futures and options—to impose volume and pricing transparency. • The United States has long guaranteed, im - plicitly, that it would rescue failing govern - ment-sponsored enterprises, such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as well as troubled banks. But these guarantees actually became part of the problem. The comfort level they created led to a low cost of borrowing and lit - tle “market discipline” to punish these institu - tions when they took on increasing risk. In the future, the authors oppose such “ill-designed and mispriced guarantees” for both private and quasi-public banking institutions. For a complete list of the authors and to read from the white papers, go to http://whitepapers.stern.nyu.edu/home NYU / SPRING 2009 / 37 s r a p w d l u o w s e r t p t s e m m o t l a c k a s m r e h g i r e l t s r e e h e h y e p c u s y a 0 t n 38 o r t e 9 m r e n s e k a Similar collateral calls on AIG prompt the Fed 1 . y B t e n a e l s e e n d e ” s t n h e c . a n i f o r t s a t a c , e o p 80 . 7 / ” . t o e r “ e h T n u o y “ to inject $85 billion into the giant insurer, i h c r SP s a f d e r a h t t ’ r e w d n n o c o m “ e b n a l c n O . e c n RI ’ n e s s i t a l u g s e x a t fearing failure would be catastrophic. r i e e m o c e e v a h n i e b f a e a o r d NG g n o b r u s s n o i t e a c s a r t t r o Federal Reserve Chairman BEN BERNANKE and a r e h p i s b u s m r a c , e k “ ’ k o t c a f 2 n g r p l h t r a n O 09 a a m h t n o Treasury Secretary HENRY PAULSON call for a a h , t y o f r e e o c d n s o c e a u d e s i e s e s h s e n e l l a h c n o i d s u c n a a z e c r r p t n i d i s n d e r e d i s n y l l / i l s t e k t i n g o c e r s e h r a f , s e , d r N , s e e r c s e t i v e ”t h g u o y t s e g a p m n i e s s i YU n o r f i y d u t S n a ” , d e r e . e a a t i v MASSIVE : e e u s ( s e l b a t p i e g t t e g y ” r e c c a s e e e — e h a t t e e h . ) 7 3 o r p p g n i t n n o i . r e v o G s i o i t s u p e a r o f n a d o g n i T y l e r a e f n i v l o s c e n BANK BAILOUT. n f i g n i o g n o r t t a h i s t n u o h g n h t h c a T t o r o f o t r e g u t e s e h t g n i a t a h t R i t comer w greasi i f l banks ow ri model n e h t a m n h s e r nt urni gnored unds. i c a l e i o p u d g n o l i m d ’ y e g ke at e c n m e r h t sky h t ” , r f “ i s t s i m y r e v hel i f n e c n s e x i f h t n e k o ,e v a h e b s e o t a y l l a n A n e e her e f f o tu o l i a b ,s e v i t n t f o sr o t i d e i y d e ay r a h c a r p do m ,e m i t a u g l superizd, ng n e e b ra m ta m a s se v i t busi er p oans, ce r os l a a h bo hedg ef no g n s. ng s r They act d ------t deposit han of t heir nes the ed the by 0 9 . 9 1 THE $700 BILLION . 0 8 Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) is unveiled. 0 . 9 GOLDMAN SACHS and 2 1 0 . MORGAN STANLEY 8 convert to bank holding companies, ENDING THE ERA OF THE INVESTMENT BANK. 9 0 . 5 2 0 . WASHINGTON 8 MUTUAL is seized by FDIC, then SOLD TO JPMORGAN CHASE. 0 9 2 . 9 WACHOVIA 0 . 8 enters crisis takeover talks with Citigroup and is then BOUGHT BY WELLS FARGO after the IRS sweetens the deal with a tax subsidy. 0 1 0 . CONGRESS PASSES AN AMENDED 3 . 80 BAILOUT BILL. 0 1 Global powers coordinate an interest-rate cut as . 0 0 . 8 THE CRISIS DEEPENS. 8 1 . 0 0 1 U.S. STOCKS POST WORST 0 . 8 WEEK IN A CENTURY as DOW drops by almost one-quarter amid concern about government missteps on the crisis. THE FED ANNOUNCES AN ADDITIONAL $900 BILLION IS AVAILABLE TO BANKS. 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The Treasury m i h t e a r c h e s n v e n d o a h t r l r W. e —d a l i l e e , s o s v e i , i m n w y g e purchases about $7 billion in stock from troubled h t s i g e s h t d i n s n a e n j l y, , s h e a G c i i o C b o r e e t x b c s h n e c s s s t U.S. banks. l r u l a i t m a d i y l m i e h r e n o m o a r t s t i a h i w c ’ n i l p e s w l v a e o f g c o p o a r h b p x f c e t s i r s e e h d e i m i h l n e g i n n r n e a e e i t l e s e l v a l i 0 s e a a o o e m l l u a r t r d i a . 2 c d , e t e t s a Congress passes a e t w e r a n t i f i s e dn , , o n g i s 0 r p y, s n I r r e f h .s r o t c a e 9 s d f f n d c n i u o o o n i t o r p e h ec n e r e f f i d l f t e m i n n o a v $787 BILLION STIMULUS a n i - ta gn i - d tr t r l e - - - - PACKAGE, mostly along party lines. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner unveils a rescue plan. b O e F s t i k n a b h t d r a o B w l b a f t b t n a l m l t c c m i r - t s a r e h , t a h t i d n o m o a c e o l i h t n e e d k c a B e r o h t u a m y t i e e m a w e r ’ u e m o m n a m r i a h C s e 3 0 , s o s e h t . s l r o e s h t , n o l a n o i DOW drops below 7,000 for first time since 1997. w . s ’ a s n u f 90 e l o o C T e o t t n e d u t d a e o y d t r t i t a y e h c e s e l s t n e h n i d r p c s i d l o r , , d o h u c E m o n o e g a r e v . t Anger swells after AIG reveals that it paid C c s e h k I s e o l u y g i m o n o m o c e l o o w o n r o f t s n o h e s s u n e s m n o t d e h u b l u a P d r d l u t s u d a e e b t d e h s u s i a t i t d e d a t $165 MILLION y u s n e m e h s e n i s t o t y e h d n a i s u b . s o u o s , , s y a s s l a t I c t y a s n o V p o e k o o b i k l a t s s e n i : s a w l l ’ m t s y o t s t c e R s IN BONUSES , a o e b p l e g r e r e f f i B t e b n u o r k c r h c s s c “ e to the very employees responsible for its troubles, e h a s u l e t a n a h t m y . g n i k n , r e c s g g n a h . d e u c s e r o n T some of whom no longer work for the insurance giant. a . e l o o F y c n y r e v c l o o h t i p a c a e h t e s i t l u d a w h x a o b s ’ d w o n d m h t h t i e i w a l l o v o h e h a m o t n i t u d s u . The Fed announces plan to buy up treasury bonds l a l e ” t s e d n e t i v d A p l e h t c t h e m u e t o T t a v e l e t h t g n i n n u r i u q e r and other securities, effectively pumping i w d n a e h h a e m r o f s a e t e e l u o h ra u g c o f $1 trillion into the economy. r e t n te e m -f o - r w o s y a w ks i r nu dn a hc er o GEITHNER ANNOUNCES PLAN TO DRASTICALLY yr u ot d - - - - r r s , TIGHTEN FINANCIAL INDUSTRY REGULATIONS . S I B R O C / P N C / L O O P / S H C A S N O R © ; S I B R O C / A P E / N A M F F O H N A D N E R B © ; S I B R O C / A P E / E N A L N I T S U J © ; S I B R O C / T F A R K S K O O R B © ; S I B R O C / A P E / W E H T N W A H S © ; S E G A M I Y T T E G © ; S I B R O C / A P E / Y E L O F R E T E P © ; S I B R O C / N E L L A N A Y R B © ; N A M R U T S N I V E K © : T F E L M O R F S O T O H P SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2009 NYU NYC NYU ALUMNI DAY What will you Featuring lunch with your school's dean, special learn at the NYU performances and readings with the best of NYU’s talented students, faculty, and alumni, a celebration Alumni Day? of NYU’s diversity, and special programs for this year’s reunion classes. • Explore opportunities in the current real estate market Watch out forthe 2009 Alumni AwardsLuncheon. October2, 2009, at the Metropolitan Club, New YorkCity • Can the health care system be nyu.edu/alumni/events/awards.shtml accessible to all Americans? • Learn how to bulletproof yourjob • How is climate change affecting ourfuture? Want to learn more? Online: alumni.nyu.edu/alumniday Hotline: 212-992-7618 E-mail: [email protected] NYUAlumni XIAO YAN, A GOAT BUTCHER, RESTS DURING A BREAK AT THE SLAUGHTER MARKET IN CHANGSHA, THE PROVINCIAL CAPITAL OF HUNAN PROVINCE AND THE SITE OF MUCH OF DUNDON’S PHOTOGRAPHY ON CHINA’S DISAFFECTED YOUTH. PHOTOGRAPHER RIAN DUNDON UNCOVERS THE YOUTH LEFT BEHIND BY CHINA’S BOOM BY CHRISTIAN D E BENEDETTI NYU / SPRING 2004 / 43 N 2005, WHEN PHOTOGRAPHER RIAN DUNDON (TSOA ’03) FIRST MOVED TO THE INDUSTRIAL MINING TOWN OF JISHOU, IN CHINA’S HUNAN PROVINCE, HE DIDN’T HAVE ANY FRIENDS THERE, LET ALONE A PLAN. ON A WHIM, HE’D FOLLOWED HIS GIRLFRIEND, WHO HAD LANDED A TEACHING FELLOWSHIP. SO HE JUST WANDERED THE streets armed with his Nikon FM2 SLR film camera and a New York sensi - Ambivalence and melancholy hover like a smokestack’s haze in much of Ibility, which came in handy because he spoke no Chinese. “I made most of my Dundon’s work, which earned him a Tierney Fellowship from NYU in friends just hanging out, smoking cigarettes, and smiling at people,” he says, 2007. One photo from his collection titled “Between Love and Duty: Chi - much like when he did “the struggling photographer-artist thing” while study - nese Youth Culture” depicts gay teenagers in the countryside commingled in ing imaging and photography at the Tisch School of the Arts. Though the run- a tentative but tender embrace; another, titled “Li Qiang Waits for His Bride down city was at times daunting, there was something intriguing in its decay. on Their Wedding Day,” captures a man gripped in uncertainty, his fists To get by, Dundon, an Irish-American born in Portland, Oregon, taught Eng - curled, eyes narrowly searching the middle distance. lish at Jishou University, where he picked up some conversational Chinese, Dundon, who counts noted portrait photographers August Sander and burned through 300 rolls of black-and-white film in eight months. and Anders Petersen as key influences, explores other emotional dimensions, “I didn’t really know what I was doing at first,” admits Dundon, now too. In one striking image, a crowd restrains a young Changsha man 28 and living in Beijing. But he quickly realized that the place didn’t fit who, distraught over a girlfriend, had moments before attempted to kill what he calls the glossy image of “Eastern model cities and the economic himself by lying down in traffic. Another subject beams as he embraces his miracle of the new China.” In Jishou, and even more so in Changsha, the friend, a smiling transvestite. Still another writhes in pain, wounded from a larger, ramshackle province capital where he moved a year later for a uni - fall off his skateboard. versity job teaching English, he noted overcrowded, claustrophobic warrens Despite the sensitive nature of his work, Dundon has yet to earn the un - of dilapidated high-rises. Next to wealth and prosperity, he found evidence welcome attention of Chinese government censors. He works slowly and un - of alienation and disaffection all around him. With little hope for academic obtrusively to gain the trust of his subjects, many of whom have become his success or financial wealth, scores of young people—the offspring of many friends. This familiarity has allowed him to photograph, for example, his uni - government mandated one-child-only families—were caught in the slip - versity students in the midst of military training as well as intimate shots of stream of modern society, a fringe where recreational and hard drugs, alco - ecstasy-addled clubgoers and couples in bed after dark. Some locals find it hol, and a fatalistic resignation to the future hold sway even as a radical new shocking. “Some say that I’m seeing stuff most Chinese people don’t see,” individuality takes root. They’ve become China’s “lost generation,” re - Dundon says. “And some don’t want to look at it. They don’t tell me that marked one photo editor at Time magazine, which recently featured some of they don’t like it or that they don’t approve, but I can tell they don’t want to Dundon’s pictures and writing. see that side of society. They think, Who’s this foreigner who wants to put The name “lost generation” is apt for the subjects in a number of Dun - China in a bad light?” don’s works. Many Chinese born after 1979 are “caught between the older Dundon deflects such criticism by pointing out that he is merely mind-set of their parents and modern society,” he says. Pressure to excel ac - documenting China’s convulsive cultural shifts and the emergence of ademically is constant and suffocating, and rather than fight the system, many new social classes, both rich and poor. His work, he argues, doesn’t sensa - simply drop out. Others flee rural communities to experience the sexual free - tionalize those pushing the fringes but let’s them tell their own stories. dom and anonymity of China’s larger cities, where they band together in un - “Beyond the social context, this work is about human relationships,” derground karaoke clubs to drink, perform, and experiment with sex and he says. “Personally I think the pictures are uplifting—and a little bit drugs. “They’re too ambivalent to be frustrated,” Dundon explains. “I think joyous at times.” a lot of people feel powerless amid the pace of life and competition in Chi - na, like they’ve lost control of their own destinies.” To see more of Dundon’s work, visit www.riandundon.com. 44 / SPRING 2009 / NYU PRESSURE TO EXCEL ACADEMICALLY IS CONSTANT AND SUFFOCATING, AND RATHER THAN FIGHT THE SYSTEM, MANY YOUNG CHINESE SIMPLY DROP OUT. ABOVE: LOVERS FROM TIANJIN IN A BEIJING HOTEL ROOM. BELOW: GAY TEENAGERS EMBRACE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE. CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE: A KARAOKE BAR IN JISHOU CITY; UNIVERSITY FRESHMEN, SOME OF WHOM WERE THE PHOTOGRAPHER’S ENGLISH STUDENTS, DRILL DURING COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING; A YOUNG MAN DISTRAUGHT OVER HIS GIRLFRIEND IS RESTRAINED MOMENTS AFTER ATTEMPTING SUICIDE. LI QIANG, 22, WAITS OUTSIDE HIS BRIDE’S HOME ON THE DAY OF THEIR ARRANGED MARRIAGE IN XIANGTAN. CANWE ? IT’S FAIRLY EFFORTLESS , and the African-American perpetrators, she wanted NOW THAT AMERICA HAS occasionally entertaining, to to talk about how the teens got there, and how ELECTED AN AFRICAN- chat with your co-workers race had shaped their circumstances. >> about last night’s Knicks-Lak - Just imagine the water-cooler problem there - ers game or the latest moral fail - in: Talking about the kids’ disadvantaged past AMERICAN TO THE ings of a state governor. But when newsworthy might look like an effort to excuse their violent events with racial themes and overtones occur— actions. But Newkirk was running a class, and so HIGHEST OFFICE, MANY such as the Jena 6 protests, the building of a fence she asked her students to retell the story. One, EXPERTS CONTEND THAT on the Mexican border, or O.J. Simpson’s now for example, profiled the school that some of the legendary murder trial— we’re often too flus - teens attended and found a high dropout rate, and IT’S TIME TO DISCUSS tered for water-cooler talk or reluctant to share a correlating high incarceration rate for those stu - our true views for fear of upsetting or offending dents. “This became less a story about a few bad RACE—FOR REAL someone else. apples,” Newkirk says, “and more a story about Take the tragic murder of an aspiring actress low-achieving schools as breeding grounds for By Carlin Flora on January 27, 2005. The next morning, New crime.” The exercise got her students talking York City’s newspapers featured the tale of the about race in new and more complex ways. ILLUSTRATION BY JAMES STEINBERG beautiful 28-year-old woman who was mugged Such conversations, in theory, should have be - by seven teenagers on the Lower East Side and come easier since Barack Obama’s election to the then shot and left to die in her fiancé’s arms. presidency, which has infused Americans of all When NYU journalism professor Pamela colors with great optimism. A CNN poll taken Newkirk read the white victim’s biography in just before the new president was sworn in found the papers, aside just a few sketchy details about that more than two-thirds of African-Americans NYU / SPRING 2009 / 49 believe Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision for race VITAL AS THEY MAY BE , we can’t expect break - ered that some of these workers consider them - relations had been fulfilled. Some have even through dialogues on race to occur spontaneous - selves “color-blind” and rarely mention race. called this era “postracial.” Still others have balked ly, especially where they’re needed most—in Others believe that race and ethnicity do matter at that characterization, given the race-based in - work and social-service settings. Erica Foldy, a but engage in what Foldy calls “race minimiza - equalities that persist in our society. But the need professor in the Robert F. Wagner Graduate tion”—they acknowledge race, but then down - for frank, perhaps uncomfortable conversations School of Public Service, is on a quest to under - play it. In observing 96 case meetings, Foldy says, on race is more urgent than ever given the ex - stand how people can benefit from differences only 14 team leaders referenced race and only five panding diversity of cultures and religions in the when they work and learn together. Research out of these addressed race in any depth. So al - United States. By 2050, there will be no major - shows that diverse teams often perform worse though the professional norms of social work call ity race—whites will make up just 46 percent of than homogenous ones because those underrep - for color-cognizance, the dominant behavior of the population then, compared to 74 percent in resented within the group tend to either with - these workers was avoidance. Perhaps not sur - 2006. By that same time, Hispanics will account draw or assimilate, denying others their individual prisingly, research shows that while practicing col - for 30 percent, African-Americans 15 percent, perspectives. Foldy believes it’s not diversity it - or blindness generally makes dominant groups feel and Asian-Americans 9 percent. Add into the mix self that brings down work teams, but rather the more comfortable, it makes people of color feel a slew of class-based and religious differences and mismanagement of differences among members. less so. “We call race an undiscussable,” Foldy says. it becomes clear that in order for us to truly claim Even those specifically trained to confront race “It’s a taboo topic. I think the color blindness is a that America is “postracial,” some conversations shy away from doing so, according to Foldy, who response to that.” will need to move beyond the reliable: “How has tracked racially diverse teams of child-welfare So how can social workers and others talk ’bout them Knicks?” workers who help families in crisis. She discov - more constructively about race? In addition to encouraging color-cognizance, Foldy advocates that team leaders ask for feedback, review past work for errors, and display a general willingness >> RESEARCH to improve how they approach race-based issues on the job. Seems simple enough, especially since last November. However, Foldy cautions that Obama’s victory could actually increase work - SHOWS THAT place tensions. People may become less sensitive to the presence of discrimination, because Oba - ma’s win supports the notion that the playing field has officially been leveled. “It may be harder for WHILE PRACTICING people to make a case for affirmative action now,” Foldy explains. Despite the refreshing frankness of Obama's COLOR BLINDNESS now famous speech on race delivered in Philadel - phia during the primaries, Some observers also fear that the president’s conflict-averse style of gover - nance may actually limit the national race conver - GENERALLY MAKES sation. In his new book, American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Political Culture (Uni - versity of Minnesota Press), George Shulman con - nects the prophetic language of figures such as DOMINANT GROUPS Henry David Thoreau, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison to Democratic politics and, in particu - lar, racial politics. Abolitionists and civil rights lead - FEEL MORE COM - ers, for example, often evoked biblical language to frame their struggles. Shulman, a professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, notes that Obama’s striking lack of prophetic language sig - FORTABLE, IT MAKES nals his efforts to distance himself from a strong African-American tradition and appeal to a broad - er constituency. It is not coincidental, he says, that Obama mentioned Thomas Jefferson and Abra - PEOPLE OF COLOR ham Lincoln during his convention speech last summer, but referred to Martin Luther King Jr., only as “the preacher from Georgia.” FEEL LESS SO. << The same sometimes occurs in Shulman’s classroom. Even his most open-minded students 50 / SPRING 2009 / NYU >> IN ORDER FOR US TO TRULY CLAIM THAT AMERICA IS “POSTRACIAL,” SOME CONVERSATIONS WILL NEED TO MOVE BEYOND THE RELIABLE: “HOW ’BOUT THEM KNICKS?” << can tend to underestimate the impact of race. year. While Latinos are our nation’s largest mi - started in New Orleans that has created a work - “They do not see the invisible forms of inequal - nority group, for instance, they are woefully un - shop titled “Undoing Racism.” Last year, Dean ity,” he says, noting that segregation is worse derrepresented in our political system. And the Ellen Schall brought the workshop to the Wagn - now than it was in 1965, while incarceration fact that Latinos voted for Obama in large num - er School where one participant was graduate stu - rates, infant mortality rates, and unemployment bers doesn’t convince Dávila that their needs will dent Ariana Hellerman, who grew up in New rates remain three to eight times higher for now be addressed. York City and considered herself pretty savvy to African-Americans. But as the histories of Latinos and other mi - the different forms of racism in her midst. “There norities are increasingly, if slowly, woven into the were a lot of ideas swirling around in my head,” MEANINGFUL TALK ABOUT RACE in the present re - American fabric, some have experienced even she explains, “yet I never had a platform to discuss quires an understanding of what came before. greater obstacles. Since 9/11, and especially dur - them because race isn’t usually discussed.” Too often history has been written by the ing the recent election season, there has been a Hellerman and her fellow attendees were asked majority and, intentionally or not, minorities’ ex - growing tendency to conflate Muslim-Ameri - to come up with slang words that people use to re - periences have been presented more as sidebars cans—or anyone with olive skin and a dark fer to poor communities. Examples were “ghet - to the true American tale. For her part, Newkirk beard—with terrorists. Shulman notes that it was to,” “reservations,” and “el barrio.” They were is bringing intimate voices of the past to life Colin Powell’s defense of Muslim-American sol - then challenged to think of “institutional” words in the new book she’s edited, Letters From Black diers last fall that helped draw attention to the anti- that are used to describe poor communities, such America (FSG). In one letter to Abraham Lincoln, Muslim sentiment. “Powell’s point was that there as “underserved,” “disadvantaged,” “at-risk,” and the writer laments how slow some were to fol - would have been nothing wrong if Obama were “low-income.” The question posed was how low the law after slaves were freed, suggesting that in fact a Muslim—a point no one made during the “ghetto” becomes “underserved,” and vice versa, we shouldn’t underestimate the work ahead. campaign,” says Shulman, who adds that because and how seemingly innocent adjectives can pro - But this is just one thread of the larger Amer - blacks seem to be increasingly folded into the cat - mote old stereotypes. The talks still linger in ican story. An enduring limitation of the race egory of “American,” there is now this other, the Hellerman’s mind while she attends classes and conversation in the United States is that it has Muslim, who marks the boundary of “non-Amer - works at her job in philanthropy, where she has traditionally been seen through a black-and- ican” for some. noticed, for example, how the organization must white lens, avoiding focus on other emergent eth - employ two distinct languages to reach out to its nic groups. To move the conversation forward, THE RIGHT SETTING goes a long way in facilitating local community and its more affluent donors. we’ll have to understand the pasts and challenges race conversations. Newkirk was able to get her One of the more discomfiting lessons from the facing immigrants from East Asia, South Asia, students to share their reactions to the murder of workshop is that no matter which racial group we Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and all the young actress because she provided a safe en - identify with, or what our socioeconomic status or points in between. vironment, where everyone was asked to express political persuasion, everyone makes race-based A perfect example of this oversight, anthro - their perspectives and respectfully accept those of judgments all the time. Perhaps this is truly the most pologist Arlene Dávila says, was the frequent their classmates. And they were relieved to be able honest starting point for the conversation to begin. characterization of the Latino vote as a “sleeping to do so. “There seems to be a hunger for the kind As a song from the hit musical giant” that woke up in 2008 to elect Obama. of open and honest dialogue that even in the acad - Avenue Q explains: “Everyone’s “It seems like during every major election, emy is often avoided out of fear of being viewed a little bit racist sometimes. / the Latino electorate is discovered, and then as racist,” she says. Doesn’t mean we go around quickly forgotten again,” says Dávila, whose One organization trying to make space for committing hate crimes. / Look << book Latino Spin: Public Image and the White - open, thoughtful dialogue is the People’s Institute around and you will find, no washing of Race (NYU Press) was published last for Survival and Beyond, an antiracist initiative one’s really color-blind.” NYU / SPRING 2009 / 51 IN AN EFFORT WALKING TO TRULY EMBRACE THE NOTION OF A BORDERLESS THE EDUCATION, NYU BUILDS A SECOND GLOBAL HOME AT AN EMERGING CROSSROADS WALK BY JANET ALLON NYU STUDENTS AT THE REICHSTAG IN BERLIN ABU DHABI SKYLINE AT NIGHT THE SHEIKH ZAYED MOSQUE OF ABU DHABI IS THE THIRD LARGEST IN THE WORLD t was one of the profoundest revelations of the 9/11 dle East. Cornell, Georgetown, and Carnegie Mellon are all establishing programs in the re - attacks, reiterated more recently in Mumbai, and gion, though none on NYU Abu Dhabi’s could even be said to be a subtext in the election of scale. For NYU, having Abu Dhabi as a part - ner in this venture was “almost as obvious as IBarack Obama as president. A larger-than-ever the move,” Sexton says. “We share important chunk of the planet’s 6.7 billion people believes the perspectives, a mindfulness of history but a fo - cus on the future, and a belief that there’s an United States is a selfish, narrow-minded bully that cares evolving global dynamic that is going to bring little about other cultures. Newsweek ’s Fareed Zakaria about the emergence of a set of idea capitals around the world.” eloquently summarized the problem in his ground - While this new education project may be breaking essay, “Why They Hate Us,” published right unprecedented, NYU has always been an in - ternational kind of place. Deeply intermeshed after the towers fell. He and others suggest that one way with the fabric of America’s most polyglot to change how the world sees America—and how we city, the university has educated immigrants, and the children of immigrants, at rates ex - see them—is through the most universal of cultural ceeding those of just about any other institu - bridges: higher education. tion. It has also long maintained a rich, evolving, and ever-more-popular study- This notion is part of the thinking behind It’s not surprising that Abu Dhabi was in - abroad program—its first outpost, in Madrid, a bold new partnership between NYU and the terested in attracting a top U.S. university. recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. And leadership of Abu Dhabi to build a compre - Higher education is, in the words of Zakaria, during Sexton’s tenure, the percentage of hensive liberal arts and science campus in the “the United States’ best industry.” With just NYU students who avail themselves of study- heart of the Middle East. When it opens its 5 percent of the world’s population, the U.S. abroad opportunities has risen to 42 percent doors in 2010, NYU Abu Dhabi will be the is home to eight of the top 10 universities in from 23 percent. For the past several years, first such project created by a major U.S. re - the world, and in fields such as computer sci - NYU has sent more students abroad than any search institution off American soil. With this, ence, for example, American universities sim - other American university, and students can NYU and Abu Dhabi will embark on an au - ply leave overseas competitors in the dust. now pursue their studies at any one of 16 lo - dacious experiment—one, it should be not - Sure, rising countries like China and India cations on five continents—London, Paris, ed, that is not without risk. But it is also one have elite institutions—but coming to Amer - Madrid, Prague, Hong Kong, Florence, that President John Sexton sees as a pivotal ica for a college education is still the surest Buenos Aires, Ghana, Zurich, Beijing, Shang - step in positioning NYU as a truly global uni - versity. “It takes global education to a quali - tatively new level,” says Alfred H. Bloom, NYU ABU DHABI'S PERMANENT who will soon be stepping down as president of Swarthmore College to become the first vice chancellor of NYU Abu Dhabi. “It will CAMPUS IS BEING BUILT FROM THE be a university not anchored in a particular re - gion or culture, but one that searches for com - GROUND UP ON SAADIYAT ISLAND, mon ground.” The permanent campus (to be completed WHERE ITS NEIGHBORS WILL BE in 2013) is being built from the ground up on Saadiyat Island, a once desert island just off NEW OUTPOSTS OF THE LOUVRE the coast of the United Arab Emirates, where its neighbors will be new outposts of the Lou - AND THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM. vre and the Guggenheim Museum. NYU Abu Dhabi will be financed by the Executive Af - fairs Authority, or EAA, of the Abu Dhabi government and the future campus’s interna - path to success and employability in a high- hai, Singapore, Dublin, Havana, Capetown, tional composition, rigorous academics, and tech world. This desire for U.S.-style higher Berlin, and soon, Tel Aviv. extracurricular activities will be aligned with education, which is, Zakaria reminds, “good The fact that the programs in both Latin Abu Dhabi’s ambitious vision to emerge as a at developing the critical faculties of the America and Asia are among the most heavi - leading city in the 21st century. Over time, mind” and explains “why the U.S. produces ly subscribed is a reflection of the distance the site is expected to grow to 4,000 students, so many entrepreneurs, inventors, and risk traveled from the old study-abroad model, in admitted according to NYU’s standards of takers,” is only growing, and fine American which students would take a leave of absence quality. universities are answering the call in the Mid - to visit a foreign country—usually in Eu - 54 / SPRING 2009 / NYU rope—to immerse themselves in the language has joint degree programs in Hong Kong, for globalization and multicultural affairs and and local culture then return to the home uni - London, Paris, and Zurich. Jiri Pehe, who di - professor of German and comparative litera - versity to resume progress toward a degree. In - rects the program in Prague, says that the ture. This trend signals, in part, the rise of a creasingly over the years, NYU has offered university is seen as something of a trendset - generation of globe-trotting, intellectually cu - programs that transcend the usual semester or ter in other parts of the world. “Expanding its rious students—a generation that pollster John summer abroad. One distinction is that stu - efforts to become a more global university Zogby has dubbed the “First Globals.” But it dents may make meaningful progress toward gives NYU a very specific identity,” he says. also reflects the fact that many industries now many kinds of degrees—not just foreign lan - “In this area, it is far ahead of other major require a more global vantage point. “If a bank guages—while studying abroad, making this American universities.” is hiring, it’s probably better if you’ve spent a I L L U S T R A T I O N © T D I C A FUTURE VIEW OF SAADIYAT ISLAND part of their education friendlier to those The idea of the college as portal to the much half a year in China, studying business and also learning, say, math or biology, or those who larger world is what draws many students to learning at least some Mandarin,” Baer says. wish to graduate on time. NYU in the first place. “More and more, they As recently as the 1990s, American students Some opportunities are even more com - want to make connections between vastly dif - could reasonably assume that English would prehensive: The Tisch School of the Arts ferent places, be able to move between differ - be the lingua franca in the world of interna - and the School of Law both operate degree- ent cultures, and develop the confidence and tional business. Not so anymore. “You can still granting graduate programs in Singapore, the humility to leave their cultural assump - do business in English throughout the world, and the Leonard N. Stern School of Business tions behind,” says Ulrich Baer, vice provost but not quite as well,” Baer adds. NYU / SPRING 2009 / 55 GHAN A BERLIN FLORENCE BUENOS AIRES PARIS MADRID SHANGHA I LONDON P H David Sharon (Stern ’10), a business student its critics. There are those who worry that cre - movement in Abu Dhabi, Chaudhuri notes, O T O from Israel, is already studying abroad by ating a second campus will drain Washington theater and other art scenes are still develop - S 5 2 / 5 virtue of pursuing his education in New York, Square of much-needed financial resources ing. Having grown up in India, she’s especial - 3 C L O but he wanted to enhance this by going some - and energy, and there are those who worry ly aware of the need to frame lessons in the C K W I S where even farther outside his comfort zone. that the NYU brand will be in danger of di - right cultural context but is anxious to exam - E : © He chose Shanghai, where the classes are sen - lution. “I think the development of a global ine student reaction to American trends. “The B O B H sibly geared toward China’s rapid moderniza - university has terrific potential, but there are energy there is very attractive,” Chaudhuri A N D E tion. “I learned the most by becoming a quite a few pitfalls,” says Craig Calhoun, Uni - says, observing that the youth culture is in - L M A N consumer in the country,” Sharon explains. versity Professor of the Social Sciences. “We creasingly exploratory and experimental. “We N ; G E T “From negotiating in the markets for souvenirs need to make sure all of our parts share in the really need to look for meaningful ways to in - T Y I M to going to dinner with Chinese students I met achievement of intellectual excellence that is teract with this part of the world. I think this A G E S on campus, I started to learn the rules of ne - at the core of a research university.” Sexton is a visionary project not just for NYU, but for ; C O R gotiation and expected cultural behavior in and others point out that NYU Abu Dhabi is American higher education.” B I S business and social settings. I expect these soft funded separately—and entirely—by the EAA, “There is no question that we will learn skills to help me in the future.” P H O T And travel abroad can often lead to more O © C travel abroad. It did for Fareed Mostoufi O R B I (TSOA ’08), who completed a television writ - S ing major with a minor in Spanish. He spent a summer in Madrid, taking acting and jour - nalism classes, and in the process getting “much more interested in the Spanish lan - guage.” When he came back, he landed a Ful - bright English Teaching Assistantship in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. Another mark of Zogby’s First Global gen - eration is their extra-border perspective, an offshoot of the technology they have grown up with. “First Globals,” Zogby writes, “want borders pushed back because in their own "[NYU ABU DHABI] WILL BE A UNIVERSITY NOT ANCHORED IN A PARTICULAR REGION OR CULTURE, BUT ONE THAT SEARCHES FOR COMMON GROUND." –ALFRED H. BLOOM CREATING NEW KNOWLEDGE IS CENTRAL TO NYU ABU DHABI H 5 6 A / N 5 D 7 E : L minds they exist in the largely borderless world so it won’t have any effect on resources in New something by being in Abu Dhabi and by be - L M O A N N D N of the Internet.” NYU Abu Dhabi will put this York. In fact, the Abu Dhabi campus and fi - ing in the Middle East,” Baer agrees. “We may O ; N B , U B E E perception to a test and will help refashion the nancial support will provide new research, evolve into a different university. I would de - N R O L I S N A university as a somewhat decentered institu - teaching, and faculty recruitment opportuni - scribe it as a calculated risk.” The move re - M I R A E D S R , tion, one in which two portals—one in New ties both from NYU’s existing faculty as well minds Baer of when, in 1969, Yale College I D S H , P A A York, one in Abu Dhabi—offer access to what as from external recruitment sources. decided to admit women, arousing heated de - N R G I H S A , I F President Sexton has called the first “global One of the first to sign up for a semester in bate and calls that it would change the Yale , L G O H R A E N network university.” In this new system, stu - the U.A.E. was Una Chaudhuri, professor of experience or compromise the brand. But Baer N A C E © © I dents from all over the planet can receive the English and drama, who sees a unique oppor - believes that this speaks to the very founda - L B E O N B imprimatur of an NYU education while mov - tunity to create an arts curriculum in a place tion of the academic mission. “Education is E P E A R ing easily among any one of the far-flung sites. not yet saturated with Western culture. While not a product you are selling,” he argues. “It’s L M A It’s quite a concept. 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Most are mal - the children call him, ex - staggering reach one can 62 / SPRING 2009 / NYU P H DENTIST ROBERT RENNER SPENDS NINE MONTHS OF THE YEAR O T O TREATING CHILDREN THROUGH MOBILE CLINICS IN CENTRAL S C O AMERICA AND ASIA. U 1940s R T E S Y O F reality has led Renner to a physicist, Renner over - X GERALD FISHER / ADRIAN S. PRICE / X X X expand his focus to men - sees every aspect of his X STERN ’40 / is a mentor STERN ’49 / of Boynton X X X toring native doctors and grassroots endeavor: coor - X at the Berkley Center for Beach, FL, published his X X educating parents about dinating country visits with Entrepreneurial Studies book A Gentleman From the importance of dental Save the Children and oth - and a business plan com - Boynton “B-Y-T-E-S” Back care and healthy diets. “In er nongovernmental or - petition coach at the (iUniverse), which includ - many cases, these coun - ganizations, obtaining Leonard N. Stern School ed a series of columns tries are starting from supplies and equipment, of Business. Now retired, and humorous commen - scratch,” he says. and attracting professional he previously served as taries on global, econom - Renner’s dedication to and dental student volun - president and CEO of Arch ic, social, and technology caring for indigent kids is teers. The couple spends Bilt Container Corp. and topics. borne out of his own ex - about $40,000 annually to Energy Recycling Corp. perience as an orphan. A run the seasonal clinics. native New Yorker, Ren - Last month, Renner ner went to Bayside High started a fourth clinic in School in Queens and, the Philippines, where though cared for by his he will face a perennial 195 0s godparents, felt no acute problem: allaying chil - sense of family. At age 17, dren’s fears of the den - DAVID T. NASH / WSC named the Harold M. and ’50, MED ’53 / authored Beverly Maurer Center the article “Role of for Public Health in their Many of Renner’s Lipoproteins in Dementia honor. Maurer is chancel - patients have never seen and Alzheimer’s Disease” lor of the University of a dentist, let alone in the Journal of Clinical Nebraska Medical Center. Lipidology, and a review owned a toothbrush. of a new anti-angina drug MILTON PACHTER / in the globally recog - LAW ’58 / was presented he started working at tist—and locals’ distrust nized medical journal with the Jefferson Ford - P Lancet . His list of peer- ham Lifetime Achieve - H Broadway Savings Bank of a foreigner. Seven O T O in Manhattan and saved years ago, for example, reviewed publications ment Award from the © D R exceeds 230. American Bar Associa - . enough money to pay his when he first treated P U R tion, in recognition of his O way through NYU, Wendy, a 12-year-old in B I P HARRY A. EZRATTY / outstanding assistance to H where he studied lan - El Salvador, for severe I L L I P WSC ’55 / completed his the practice of state and S guages, before attending cavities, she was incredi- dental school at Columbia bly frightened. But she historical trilogy about local government law. have. On a typical day at a University. Over the next now has perfect teeth Jews in the new world Pachter is general attor - clinic, Renner treats up to three decades, Renner and comes running to with the 2008 publica - ney and senior litigation 200 children—compared worked as a dental educa - “Dr. Bob” whenever he tion of The Builders: Jews counsel for the Port Au - to the average of 10 pa - tor at Stony Brook Uni - visits. His time-tested and the Growth of Ameri - thority of New York and tients he’d see when he versity, at the North Fork strategy for winning over ca (Omni Arts). Ezratty the New Jersey Depart - practiced on Long Island. VA Hospital, and in pri - patients is to pack dental practices law and is a ment of Law and Public He now treats close to vate practice on Long Is - supplies, surgical instru - member of the speaker’s Safety. 5,000 children annually land. At every stage, he ments, and several suitcas - bureau of the Jewish Mu - and spends nine months nurtured his passion for es of crayons, coloring seum of Maryland and MARTIN SELTZER / ENG abroad each year conduct - volunteering—running books, and toys. If a child the board of the Society ’58 / has been designat - ing mobile clinics in El clinics at a Utah Navajo has no cavities or gum for the Study of Crypto- ed a senior statesman in Salvador, Guatemala, and reservation and caring for disease, she gets her pick, Judaism. Ohio in the area of natu - Cambodia. Vast dispari - migrant workers near his plus a high five. “It’s like ral resources and the en - ties in treatment divide home. “I know the value a fiesta when we go to HAROLD M. MAURER / vironment by Chambers the wealthy and the poor of charity and having peo - Wendy’s village,” Renner ARTS ’57 / and his & Partners, publishers of in these places. Cambo - ple reach out to you when says. “All the parents and wife, Beverly, were re - Chambers USA: Ameri - dia, for instance, has just you’re all alone,” he says. kids wear their finest cently recognized by the ca’s Leading Lawyers for 300 dentists for a popula - With the help of his clothes and turn out to see University of Nebraska Business. tion of 14 million. This wife, Purobi Phillips, the dentist.” Board of Regents, which NYU / SPRING 2009 / 63 1960s ROBERT P. LISAK / ARTS years—26 of them on Sat - JOHN GARRISON / WAG class with a lecture on HERBERT I. LONDON / ’61 / was elected as a urday Night Live, for which ’64 / recently retired after “The 11th Commandment.” STEINHARDT ’66 / Fellow of the Royal College he has won several Prime - a long career as CEO of Foxman is the national di - recently published his of Physicians in the time Emmy Awards. Easter Seals and, later, of rector of the Anti-Defama - book, America’s Secular United Kingdom. Lisak the American Lung Asso - tion League and a leader Challenge: The Rise of a was one of only five ANTHONY MOTTA / ciation, where he was in the fight against anti- New National Religion (En - physicians from the U.S. ARTS ’63 / published his recognized for his anti- Semitism. counter Books). Last fall, chosen for this distinction second book, Love, Sex & tobacco efforts by Henry he lectured on the subject in 2008. Politics (A. Motta), in Au - Kissinger, former U.S. Sur - FELISSA R. LASHLEY / at NYU. gust 2008. It is the love geon General C. Everett NUR ’65 / has stepped New York State Governor story of a Hillary Clinton Koop, and others. down as dean of the Col - CATHERINE M. PEREBI - David Paterson appointed aide and an Obama poll - lege of Nursing at Rutgers, NOSSOFF / WSC ’66 / DAVID B. CORNSTEIN / ster who must compete MEL P. ROSCH / GSAS the State University of is the principal of STERN ’63 / a member with each other during the ’64 / is founder and vice New Jersey. www.newyorkcity- and chair of the board of Democratic Party primary president of marketing for tours.com, an upper-crust directors of the New York election. Motta’s first Discount Safe Outlet in ELIZABETH DAVIS- tour and event concern City Off-Track Betting book, Memoirs of a NYCity Palisades Park, NJ. After RUSSELL / STEINHARDT that caters to domestic Corp., a position he previ - Guy (A. Motta), was pub - graduating from NYU, ’66, GSAS ’87 / retired and international individu - ously held in 1994. Corn - lished in 2007. Rosch served in the U.S. from her position as the als and corporations. She stein is president of Navy’s elite Naval Security SUNY Cortland provost is also a producer of the Pinnacle Advisors Ltd., a ROBERT ROSE / Group. He is also a mem - and vice president for Internet radio program consulting and advisory MED ’63 / has performed ber of Mensa. academic affairs, a posi - “Let’s Travel,” located at firm, and serves as chair - extensive research on the tion she had held since www.letstravelradio.com. man emeritus of Finlay En - literacy and printing skills ABRAHAM H. FOXMAN / 2001. She is now pres- terprises, a leased fine of kindergarteners and has LAW ’65 / received an ident of the Tubman Col - THOMAS G. ANGELO / jewelry company. found a strong correlation honorary Doctor of Hu - lege of Technology in STERN ’67 / of Stratford, of reading skills among mane Letters degree from Liberia, West Africa, where CT, has been appointed to JAN KASOFF / STERN students who are taught Yeshiva University. Fox - she is helping to recon - the Town of Stratford’s Fi - ’63 / has worked as a using the Montessori man addressed that uni - struct the higher educa - nancial Advisory Commit - cameraman for NBC for 36 method. versity’s 2008 graduating tion system. tee. In 2002, he retired alumni connections OUR FAR-FLUNG ALUMS I L L Whether you’ve planted roots in Man - the D.C. area but alumni visitors, too. 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To learn more, visit alumni.nyu.edu/groups/regional.shtml, or contact Originally formed in 2002, the group recently revamped its programs and Riley Gallagher, regional program manager, at 212-998-6946 or has grown into a strong network connecting not only those who live in [email protected]. 64 / SPRING 2009 / NYU after 13 years as chief fi - C nancial and administrative L officer of Beck’s North 1970s America, a subsidiary of A INBEV, the world’s largest LEE RATZAN / ARTS ciation for her new film, in which she argues STEPHEN S brewer. ’70, GSAS ’72 / published The Last Wright, about that the biblical story of ROLANDI / S his book, Understanding the last standing Frank Exodus is a distortion of WSUC ’76, NOTES CAROL A. BUTLER / Information Systems: Lloyd Wright hotel. She Near Eastern history, as WAG ’80 / STEINHARDT ’67 / What They Do and Why We recently discovered the proven by archaeology. recently be - recently published Need Them, with the lost Glenn Gould program, The book is available came CFO her second book, Do Chicago American Library “How Mozart Became a through Amazon.com. for the New Butterflies Bite? (Rutgers Association. Bad Composer,” not seen York City Police Athletic University Press). The since 1968, and is super - FRANCES WARD / NUR League. Founded in 1914, book explores issues in JAY S. KWAWER / GSAS vising its remastering for ’75 / was recently named PAL is the city’s largest butterfly conservation ’71 / was selected as the public performance. chair of the department independent nonprofit and supplies a trove of new director of the of nursing at Temple Uni - youth organization. intriguing facts about William Alanson White SUSAN RYERSON / versity’s College of Health their biology and Institute of Psychiatry, STEINHARDT ’72 / Professions, where she AGUSTIN ARBULU / behaviors. Psychoanalysis, and Psy - received the American will continue her research LAW ’77 / was awarded chology in New York City. Physical Therapy Associa - on care delivery for the the Samuel R. Marotta DAVID L. COHEN / His four-year term began tion’s 2008 Henry O. and uninsured and underin - Faculty Ethics Award at STERN ’67 / has been in July 2008. Florence P. Kendall Prac - sured. Northwood University. elected to serve as vice tice Award. Created in 2001, the president for the 11th Dis - CONSTANTINE NICHOL - PETER F. DE NICOLA / award honors faculty trict of the New York SON / WSC ’71 / wrote an ANDREA TROY / STEIN - STERN ’76, ’78 / has who best model integrity State Bar Association’s original film script titled HARDT ’72 / published been elected president of and high ethical stan - Executive Committee. Freedom Dance, which her debut novel, Daddy: the Westchester-Fairfield dards. was short-listed for the An Absolutely Authentic Chapter of the Tax Execu - ROBERT F. LIMA, JR. / prestigious Odysseus Fake Memoir (iUniverse), tives Institute, a profes - DEBRA LACKS / GSAS GSAS ’68 / was awarded Award at the 2008 Lon - in 2008. The book is a sional association of ’77 / was named presi - the Institute for the Arts don Greek Film Festival. satiric send-up of the re - corporate tax practition - dent and CEO of the and Humanities Medal by cent scandals surrounding ers. He is the group tax Wordsworth Academy, a Penn State University in ELIZABETH NUNEZ / James Frey, Margaret manager for Fujifilm Hold - not-for-profit institution 2008. He also recently GSAS ’71, ’77 / has been Seltzer, and other authors ings America Corp. in offering behavioral health, published two articles, appointed provost and whose first-person ac - Valhalla, NY. child welfare, and educa - “Tríadas en el Teatro de senior vice president of counts turned out to be tion services to children Valle-Inclán ” and “Gender - Medgar Evers College. In partly, largely, or totally MICHAEL NASH / TSOA and families in the ing Evil: Pandora, Lilith, 1999, her alma mater, invented. ’76 / was recently ap - Greater Philadelphia area. Satan.” Marian College, awarded pointed investigator at She has been promoted her an honorary doctorate JOHN W. WHITE / LAW the U.S. Department numerous times over her JAMES R. MILLER / ARTS in humane letters for her ’73 / has rejoined the of Justice, after four 20 years at Wordsworth, ’69 / is president, CEO, and contributions to the arts law firm of Cravath, years at the Office of most recently serving as chairman of the board at and education and the Swaine & Moore LLP Investigations/Office of the organization’s vice the Pittsburgh office of City University of New after leaving the Securi - the Inspector General. In president of community Dickie, McCamey & York appointed her distin - ties and Exchanges Com - his new post, he will services. Chilcote, P.C., and was rec - guished professor. She mission’s Division of continue to examine ma - ognized as a Pennsylvania was inducted into the Corporation Finance. In jor contract and health- MICHAEL ABRAMS / Super Lawyer. Miller is a Hall of Excellence of St. his new position, White care fraud cases. TSOA ’78 / has co- member of the Academy of Joseph’s Convent Second - will work with corporate authored a new text, Per - Trial Lawyers of Allegheny ary School in Trinidad governance and board ROBERT PRIETO / ENG sonality Theories: Critical County, Defense Research in 2007. advisory practices. ’76 / published his first Perspectives (Sage), the Institute, Pennsylvania book, Strategic Program final book and only col - Defense Institute, and LUCILLE CARRA- MARGARET KING / Management, with the lege textbook authored or Product Liability Advisory TACHIKAWA / TSOA ’72, GSAS ’75 / published Construction Manage - co-authored by Albert El - Council. He was also named ’76 / won the Best Docu - her second book in 2007, ment Association of lis, the father of cognitive one of The Best Lawyers in mentary Award from the titled The Exodus in the America. behavior therapy. America. Iowa Motion Picture Asso - Quran (Susiana Press), (CONTINUED ON PAGE 67) NYU / SPRING 2009 / 65 C L A S S NOTES alumni profile ANDREW D. HAMINGSON / STEINHARDT ’08 THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN by Beth Stevens / TSOA ’93, ’95 T THE OPENING NIGHT OF work,” Hamingson ex - mits. “But we’re not at the cal adaptation of a 19th- THE PUBLIC THEATER’S RE - plains, “and the Public al - moment feeling that we century German play about lows me to do that on a want to run away from any teenagers realizing their AVIVAL OF HAIR IN CENTRAL much larger scale.” of our goals.” sexuality. “We thought Park last summer, the au - All of these traits have Founded in 1954 by Even before joining the we were going to be ar - dience was invited to dance served Hamingson well Joseph Papp to make the - Public, Hamingson was rested for promoting child on stage during the final since he took over the ater more accessible, the the engine behind some pornography,” Haming - number, “Let the Sun administrative and finan - Public is one of the na - of off-Broadway’s most son says about the latter. Shine In.” Andrew D. cial reins of the Public last tion’s foremost producers ambitious recent shows. Instead Spring Awakening Hamingson had a particu - October—just in time of Shakespeare and new He produced two notably transferred to Broadway larly good reason to kick for the worst economic works. The current plans adventurous works back- and won the 2007 Tony up his heels—after climb - downturn in recent mem - will further its mission by to-back during his tenure Award for Best Musical. ing the ranks of off-Broad - ory. Despite the financial updating the venue to be as managing director at Although Hamingson way theater over the past gloom, he and Eustis have both greener and more the Atlantic Theater Com - has always concerned him - 15 years, he had just been announced a grand vision hospitable, with a new lob - pany. The first, Martin self with the offstage side of named executive director for revitalizing the venera - by, easier street access, and McDonagh’s comically theater, he says, “Every first of the Public, a piece of ble theater company, in - an overhauled heating and violent The Lieutenant of preview is a rush of adren - news announced from the cluding a renovation of its ventilation system. Ham - Inishmore , was nearly aline.” He first felt this stage by artistic director 19th-century home on ingson’s challenge will be deemed “unproducible” when he observed his class - Oskar Eustis. “[Haming - Lafayette Street and an ini - to reconcile these aspira - due to its Tarantino-esque mates rehearsing One Flew son] is smart, honest, and tiative to bring a profes - tions, as well as the mobile special effects require - Over the Cuckoo’s Nest has an invaluable work sional, mobile Shakespeare troupe, with a weakening ments, including gallons of while a high school student ethic, a complicated imag - troupe to New York’s oth - economy. “[It] has made fake blood as well as scat - in Rochester, New York. ination, and a highly de - er four boroughs. “My goal us take a little bit of a hard - tered, severed limbs. The But he did not immediate - veloped ethical sense,” has always been to help er look at our plans and second, Spring Awakening , ly see how he could mak e it Eustis says. “Plus, he’s fun.” a theater develop new reevaluate them,” he ad - was the provocative musi - his career. Instead, he stud - 66 / SPRING 2009 / NYU P H (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 65) O T the American Bar Asso - on Litigation Manage - O S F R LAURA FOTI COHEN / ciation. ment, a nonpartisan al - O M L WSUC ’78 / launched liance that recognizes E F T : © www.LoveHowTo.com, SYLVESTER (SLY) lawyers who sponsor ed - A N D a how-to site on find- EDAGHESE / WSUC ’79, ucational programs, fos - R E W H ing love and keeping it GSAS ’80 / is a success - ter communications, and E N D E alive. If love fades, ful author in Lagos, Nige - provide resources to fur - R S O N there’s also advice on ria. He has published 13 ther the highest stan - ; M I C H moving on gracefully, as novels and children’s dards of litigation A L D A well as a directory of books. management. He is N I E L more than 150 dating partner and head of the services. LINDA S. JACKSON / Miami and Ft. Lauderdale STERN ’79 / of Brooklyn, offices of Arnstein & THOMAS E. HOUGHTON NY, has been appointed Lehr LLP. / TSOA ’78 / was the acting associate provost director of photography of the City University of MARION E. SHERMAN / for last year’s feature New York’s Medgar Evers STERN ’79 / was appoint - film Finding Amanda, College. Jackson is an ed medical director for the starring Matthew Broder - associate professor of Ohio Department of Men - ick, Steve Coogan, Brit - English and previously tal Health. Sherman cur - tany Snow, and Maura served as deputy chair rently serves on the Tierney. of that department. faculty at both the Ohio State University School of THOMAS B. WELLS / JEFFREY B. SHAPIRO / Medicine and the Ohio LAW ’78 / is the LAW ’79 / has been University College of incoming president of nominated to the Council Osteopathic Medicine. FRESH FROM OFF-BROADWAY SUCCESS, ANDREW HAMINGSON (LEFT) BRINGS HIS BACKSTAGE AMBITIONS TO THE PUBLIC THEATER. CENTRAL PARK’S DELACORTE THEATER (ABOVE) IS ONE VENUE FOR THE PUBLIC THEATER’S WORKS. 198 0s ied accounting at the State Manhattan Theatre Club. University of New York at Though he initially made GREGORY C. BUFFALOW in lay language and “chilling indictment of Geneseo and went on to only $75 a week, over the / LAW ’80 / is a partner illustrated throughout, how government and big run several businesses, in - next dozen years he rose to at Alford Clausen & Mc - the book tackles the business prized profits cluding a Domino’s Pizza the post of development Donald LLC, a regional theory of interstellar trav - over health.” franchise. But, he says, director and, finally, in defense firm serving the el via macroscopic quan - “It didn’t feed my soul.” 2004, moved to the At - U.S. Gulf coast. He heads tum tunneling. To learn BRUCE NOZICK / TSOA the firm’s maritime prac - more, visit www.thisway ’82 / is an actor in Los tice in Mobile, AL. tothestars .org. Angeles. His recent TV Hamingson’s grand vision appearances include for the Public Theater ELISE MEISNER HEALY ALEENA SHAPIRO / guest-starring roles / WAG ’80 / is a founding LAW ’81, ’85 / has re - on Entourage, Shark, includes an initiative to shareholder in Spencer cently been appointed Bi g Shots , Women’s bring a mobile Shakespeare Crain Cubbage Healy & counsel at Hartman & Murder Club, and McNamara, a law firm in Craven LLP. Private Practice. He is troup etoNew York’ s Dallas, which is the first married and has two other four boroughs. significant firm in Texas NANCY NICHOLS / teenag e boys. to enjoy a majority of TSOA ’82 / published In 1992, Hamingson lantic. “I don’t think you female owners. Lake Effect: Two Sisters ROBERT A. WYCHULIS / moved to New York City could call it overnight suc - and a Town’s Toxic Legacy WAG ’82 / was appoint- to pursue graduate studies cess,” Hamingson says PAUL KIRSCH / TSOA (Island Press), an in-depth ed CEO of Amerigroup in performing-arts admin - wryly. But success did ’80 / just published his investigation into the Community Care of New istration at NYU and, be - come, and last year he fi - book, This Way to the pollution of her home - York, to which he brings fore he could complete the nally finished his graduate Stars (Timeless Voyager town and her and her more than 30 years of degree, landed a job as an thesis—an academic paper Press), which is available sister’s cancer. People health-care experience. intern at the nonprofit on Spring Awakening . on Amazon.com. Written magazine called it a (CONTINUED ON PAGE 69) NYU / SPRING 2009 / 67 alumni profile DE’SHAWN WRIGHT / WAG ’02 Charting a Course for Newark’s Youth by Joie Jager-Hyman E’SHAWN WRIGHT COULD HAVE BEEN A MODERN- D DAY CHARACTER FROM THE TV show Mad Men . fronted poverty, neighbor - Armed with a quick wit hood violence, domestic and a degree in marketing abuse, and exposure to and communications from drugs, which often hin - James Madison University dered their ability to com - in Virginia, Wright was mit to schoolwork. To on the fast track at a pow - better understand how erful New York advertis - public policy might re - ing agency. But despite shape conditions for stu - his bright future, he felt dents to succeed, Wright something was missing simultaneously enrolled in and signed up one day to the Robert F. Wagner volunteer at the Lower Graduate School of Public East Side Boys Club. In a Service. “I was able to take short time, everything what I learned in class and changed for him. immediately apply it on “I spent most of my time the ground,” he says. Since tutoring and discovered a then, he has employed this skill set I didn’t know I experience at nearly every had—conveying complex level of education reform concepts to kids,” Wright and has helped to turn remembers. He also be - around two of the most came attuned to the poor fraught public school sys - state of public education tems in the country. and decided to leave the ad Afte r graduation, Wright game behind. In 2000, he used his policy chops at landed a spot in the Teach the New York City De - for America program in partment of Education, Upper Manhattan’s Wash - where, with funds from ington Heights, where the Gates Foundation, he many of his students con - helped break up large pub - 68 / SPRING 2009 / NYU P H (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 67) O T tions and marketing com - greeting lic schools in the city local foundations to C O © D to open 75 small public found the Newark Char - From 2003 until recently, munications agency. cards and A L V I D he was president and relaxation H schools that offer stu- ter School Fund in April A A N D CEO of the Florida Asso - TRACY ROSENTHAL- CDs for S dents far more special - 2008. The fund’s aspira - C H U ciation of Health Plans, NEWSOM / TSOA ’84 / those with S H ized attention. It was tions are lofty—the goal a trade association that was the senior producer cancer or ex - then that Wright joined is to retain 80 percent of S Chancellor Joel Klein’s all charter students over a represents more than of Rock Band, a video periencing team, implementing the four-year period and en - 20 insurers. game that lets multiple difficult NOTES Children First Initiative sure that 80 percent of players perform together times. For to give principals auton - pupils reach proficiency YVONNE FARROW / virtually in music videos more infor - omy in exchange for on the state’s math and GAL ’83 / was nominat - by the world’s biggest mation, visit greater school accounta - English exams. ed for Best Producer rock artists. Rock Band www.sagessedesigns bility. He later met new - In order to make this for YVETTE HEYLIGER ’s received 3 D.I.C.E. .com. ly elected Newark Mayor happen, Wright is apply - / GAL ’83, ’87 / hit awards, including Innova - Cory Booker, a fateful ing innovative approach - stage play, What Would tion in Gaming, Sound - HELDER COELHO / encounter that would es to education. Now Jesus Do? at the 18th track, and Family Game STERN ’87 / left the lead Wright to refocus working full-time as a Annual NAACP Theater of the Year. practice of public-inter - Awards show held at est law to study healing the Kodak Theater in LYNDA SMITH / GSAS arts. He now has an MS Wright says: “Schools Hollywood. '84 / and CRAIG SMITH in acupuncture and have the responsibility / GSAS '86 / announce opened the Manhattan- During the 2008 presi - the founding of Palisade based Classical Wellness to educate every child, dential campaign, Press, a small independ - Center, which follows the so they should also have BRUCE M CBARNETTE / ent literary publisher. For principles of classical LAW ’83 / organized more information, visit Chinese medicine. the flexibility to do what and hosted a series of www.palisadepress.com. works. That includes fund-raising events KATHLEEN G.R. MADI - called “Art for Obama” ARTURO CASADEVALL GAN / STERN ’87 / of extended hours, week - at more than 45 galleries / MED ’85 / received Bensalem, PA, has joined end classes, and longer in 13 cities across the the William A. Hinton th e Do wJones Newswires country. Research Training Award editorial team as an eco - school years.” from the American nomics writer and regu - CLIFFORD BOB / LAW Society for Microbiology lar columnist. Madigan his energy from NYC partner at the fund, he ’84 / was editor of the for his outstanding was previously a senior to a city that, while is helping to redefine 2008 book, The Interna - contributions toward writer and market ana - much smaller, confronts the concept of a school tional Struggle for New fostering the research lyst with Lord Abbett, an equally daunting educa - day. “The old way of Human Rights (University training of underrepre - independent money man - tion obstacles. looking at it, as Booker of Pennsylvania Press). sented minorities. He agement company. Booker was looking often describes, is that chairs the Department for advice on the thorny time is constant and Pianist MADELEINE of Microbiology and ALEXANDRE POLO - issues affecting Newark’s achievement is the vari - HSU FORTE / STEIN - Immunology at the ZOFF / WSUC ’87 / has underperforming schools able,” Wright explains. HARDT ’84 / was Albert Einstein College been recognized as a —which have been con - “We want to turn that invited to last year’s of Medicine at Yeshiva master investor by IBM trolled by the state of paradigm on its head so International Convention University. Software Group for his New Jersey since 1995— that achievement is the of Mu Phi Epsilon in leadership and mentoring and recruited Wright to constant and time is the Jacksonville, FL, where PATRICK D EALMEIDA / among patent holders serve as his chief policy variable. Schools have she performed a selec - WSUC ’86 / was and inventors. adviser in 2006. During the responsibility to tion from Olivier Messi - appointed as judge of his two years in this role, educate every child, so aen’s “ Vingt regards sur the Tax Court of New CRAIG E. STEARNS / Wright succeeded in they should also have l’Enfant-Jésus .” Jersey by Governor Jon TSOA ’87, ’88 / joined opening two thriving the flexibility to do Corzine in January Lenox Advisors, a wealth charter schools as well as what works. That in - BARBARA ROSENBAUM 2008. management firm, as a helping to secure $22 cludes extended hours, / WSUC ’84 / senior vice president in million pooled from a weekend classes, and has been hired as senior CATHY MEZINIS- the firm’s Stamford, CT, coalition of national and longer school years.” account supervisor of BALENOVIC / GAL ’86 / and New York City of - Stern + Associates, a launched Sagesse De - fices, where he will con - D E ’SHAWN WRIGHT IS HELPING TO REFORM EDUCATION IN NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, WITH A CHARTER-SCHOOL INITIATIVE. full-service public rela - signs, which offers (CONTINUED ON PAGE 70) NYU / SPRING 2009 / 69 (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 69) chases of diapers, which International Journalism ALEJANDRO BADIA / managing director for C are distributed through Prize in Spain. His latest MED ’89 / recently Hudson Realty Capital L sult on finan - local shelters, food book looks at Republican opened his own practice, and was ranked No. 6 A cial, estate, pantries , day-care, and cellist Pablo Casals in Badia Hand to Shoulder among the “NY Area’s health facilities. The bank S and exile following the Spanish Center, in Doral, FL. Largest Minority-Owned retirement gives out about 100,000 Civil War. Companies” in Crain’s S planning, risk diapers a month through STACY HORN / magazine. NOTES management 50 local agencies in New HABIB P. ACHKAR / TSOA ’89 / recently and insurance, Haven, Bridgeport, and STERN ’89 / of London, published her book, LYDIA PANAS / STEIN - asset manage - Hartford, CT . England, has been Unbelievable: Investiga - HARDT ’89 / displayed ment, and appointed CEO of Morgan tions Into Ghosts, Polter - her artwork at the corporate benefits. PEDRO REINA-PEREZ / Stanley Saudi Arabia. geists, Telepathy, and 26th-annual Membership WSUC ’88 / received the He has worked at Morgan Other Unseen Phenomena Exhibition at the Houston In 2004, JOANNE GOLD - second Bolívar Pagán Stanley since 1989 and From the Duke Parapsy - Center for Photography. BLUM / WSUC ’88 / Award 2006 in Puerto was formerly the firm’s chology Laboratory (Ecco). Panas’s work can be founded the Diaper Bank Rico, and an honorable head of sales and trading viewed at Social to collect diapers and cash mention in the José for France. RICHARD ORTIZ / STERN Documentary.net. donations for bulk pur - Ramón Piñero León ’89 / is the 1990s RONNI BAER / IFA ’90 / PublishAmerica). They’re and is leading an expedi - ings, eliminate overeating, CHAD BOLTON / WSUC was honored as a knight- available through most on - tion to Guatemala with and enjoy exercise. ’93, WAG ’07 / has taken a commander in the Order line book retailers. funding from the Royal new position as general of Isabella th e Catholic by Geographic Society to as - LIZ ELTING / STERN ’92 manager at the Film Forum, the Spanish government JAMES RAINES / SSSW sess the health and nutri - / and her company New York City’s only auton- and by Juan Carlos I, King ’90 / recently published tion of indigenous TransPerfect Inc. appeared omous nonprofit cinema. of Spain for her outstand - his first book, Evidence Guatemalans. in Crain’s ranking of the ing contributions to the Based Practice in School “New York Area’s WILLIAM J. CASTILLO / dissemination of Spanish Mental Health (Oxford Uni - ALICIA D. POLAK / WSC Largest Women-Owned GSAS ’93 / is a partner in cultur e in th e U.S. . The Or - versity Press). ’91, WAG ’01 / is CEO and Companies.” the intellectual property der’s insignia and entitle - founder of the Khaya law firm of Caesar, Rivise, ment was presented to LISA K. ROSS / WSUC Cookie Company, which LAURA L. JALOWAYSKI Bernstein, Cohen & Baer by Ambassador of ’90 / is president and was established to better VIDLER / WSUC ’92 / was Pokotilow, and addressed Spain to the U.S. Jorge partner of RBB Public Re - the lives of residents in promoted to associate pro - lawyers on IP issues and Dezcallar at a special cer - lations, which PR Week her adopted home of fessor of Spanish at the the pharmaceutical indus - emony at the home of magazine named “Small South Africa. For every U.S. Military Academy in try at the second-annual Carlos Robles, Consul PR Agency of the Year” in 150,000 boxes of cookies West Point, NY, where she Intellectual Property Law General of Spain. both 2007 and 2008. sold, 100 jobs are created focuses on performance Institute sponsored by PBI. that support sustainable theory and staging prac - RON DANIEL / STEIN - DEBORAH HIETT / GAL opportunities and job skills tices of 17th-century ANIL BARAL / SCPS ’94, HARDT ’90 / owns a real ’91 / married Australian training fo r resident softhe Spanish drama. TSOA ’02 / and KATHRYN estate practice, which he entrepreneur Matthew local community , wher e the MAUGHAN / TSOA ’05 / runs with his partner, Shel - Valenti, founder of eZoetic ingredients are sourced MICHAEL J. AGOVINO / are among the inaugural don Stivelman, in Miami. .com, in April 2008. Hiett and the cookies are made. 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M AC PHEE / was seven months preg - ing partner of Verus ager for the past 10 years. ’95 / of Little Neck, NY, STERN ’96 / of nant, and what followed. Carbon Neutral, an eco- has been appointed to the Ridgewood, NJ, has been The book is the personal conscious company that DOUGLAS D. M CINNIS / position of treasurer for named vice president for story of how one woman helps businesses and indi - TSOA ’94 / received a juris the Metropolitan Transit alumni relations and endured a public tragedy. viduals to reduce their car - doctorate degree from New Authority. Dayal was most president of the Columbia bon footprints. In its latest England School of Law recently its acting finance Alumni Association. KAINE AGARY / WAG ’97 / project, Verus worked with during commencement director. won the 2008 Nigeria Prize 18 business owners in a re - ceremonies at the Citi MINA MORITA / for Literature for her 2006 tail district in Atlanta, the Performing Arts Center BERL D. JONES / STEIN - TSOA ’96 / was selected debut, Yellow-Yellow (Dtalk - Corner-Virginia Highland, in May 2008. HARDT ’95 / was recently for the Bret C. Harte Di - shop). In 2007, the novel to create the first carbon- promoted to director of the recting Internship at the won Victor Nwankwo’s Book neutral zone in the country. KEELEY P. MITCHELL- Individual Assistance Divi - Berkeley Repertory The - of the Year Award, and the WALLACE / WSUC ’94 / sion within the Department atre, where she will work ANA/Chevron Prize for En - KAREN BROWN / recently joined South - of Homeland Security’s with many respected direc - vironmental Writing. She WAG ’98 / received the Search Legal Recruiters Federal Emergency Man - tors and award-winning also runs DTalkshop, an Martha Newman Award in where, as vice president, agement Agency. playwrights. NGO in Lagos that educates May 2008 from the Con - she will establish and man - people about their rights. necticut Council for Philan - 72 / SPRING 2009 / NYU thropy for exemplary and marketing, and strategic C sustained staff perform - planning. 2000s L ance at the Fairfield County Community Foundation in COLLEEN KELLEHER A Norwalk, CT, where she is SORRENTINO / STERN JONATHAN CHOA / tive Broadband Consult - munications S vice president of programs. ’98 / was named one of CAS ’00 / joined the firm ing Group, LLC, a bou - and market - S the “50 Most Influential Potter Anderson & Cor - tique consulting firm in ing at New NOTES ALEXANDRA CHAN / Women” by Irish Voice in roon LLP’s Litigation the broadband-related York Insti - DEN ’98 / is currently the the newspaper’s first such Group, where Choa will sectors of cable, mobile, tute of Tech - director of dental services ranking. She is vice presi - focus his practice on in - technology, and digital nology ,where for Hill Health Corporation dent of advanced strate - tellectual property and media. Khan is a strate - he will lead in New Haven, CT, where gies and senior investment commercial litigation. gist in media and the university’s global she leads a multimillion- officer at Wall Street telecommunications, with integrated marketing dollar oral health program Access LLC. CHRISTOPHER CLAPS / expertise in cable, broad - initiatives and guide its and a multipractice expan - LAW ’00 / has been pro - band, and wireless. award-winning communi - sion within the state. Chan HEBRON SIMCKES- moted to senior vice cations, marketing, pub - is an active member in the JOFFE / TSOA ’99, GAL president of Quantitative DANIELLE LANTEIGNE lic relations, and Connecticut Primary Care ’07 / is working on Warner Analysis for Contempo - / STEINHARDT ’01 / advertising efforts. Association, Connecticut Bros.’ new digital initiative. rary Healthcare Capital, opened Leche-Vitrines Health Foundation, Con - He will conceptualize, LLC. Art Alliance, a fine-art THOMAS D. ZWEIFEL / necticut State Dental Asso - write, and direct content gallery in Fort Laud - GSAS ’01 / was married ciation, New Haven Oral with a team of filmmakers DEIRDRE R. WHEAT - erdale, FL. The gallery to Gabrielle Wurmser of Health Coalition, Academy in a “creative lab.” LEY-LISS / LAW ’00 / is represents more than 30 Zurich in December of General Dentistry, Amer - a shareholder in the law local, national, and inter - 2008. He is the CEO of ican Dental Association, DAVID W. TANG / STERN firm of Fein, Such, Kahn national artists, and is Swiss Consulting Group, and the American Public ’99 / of Shanghai, China, & Shepard, P.C., in Parsip - one of few in Broward a leadership professor, Health Association. was appointed CFO and pany, NJ, and was fea - County to exhibit original and an author. His fifth vice president of Vimicro tured in a Consumer works by emerging book, The Rabbi and the DIANE SCOTT-LICHTER / International Corp., which Digest article as an au - and mid-career artists. CEO: The Ten Command - GAL ’98 / was appointed designs and develops mul - thority on estate plan - Visit www.lechevitrines ments for 21st Century publisher and head of the timedia semiconductor ning and elder law issues. art.com . Leaders (SelectBooks), American Association for products. Prior to joinin g She was also named one was co-authored with Cancer Research’s scientif - Vimicro, Tan g served as the of NJBIZ’s “Top Forty JENNIFER Y. PARK / Aaron L. Raskin and ic publishing division, CFO of CNinsure Inc., a Under 40.” STEINHARDT ’01 / published in 2008. where she will oversee all NASDAQ-listed company is coordinator of special aspects of production, operating in China. PAULA BOHINCE / projects at the Museum KRISTIN BLEMASTER GSAS ’01 / published her at the Fashion Institute HOGAN / CAS ’02 / is debut collection of of Technology. She an associate at Fitz - alumni event poems, Incident at the co-authored Gothic: Dark patrick, Cella, Harper & Edge of Bayonet Woods Glamour (Yale Press), a Scinto, and winner of the CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF (Sarabande). book on the origins and 2008 Burton Award for cultural roots of Gothic Legal Achievement for an ADVANCING DIVERSITY AT NYU HELENA CORONADO- style and its contempo - article she published in In 1988, NYU established the Office for African Ameri - SALAZAR / CAS ’01 / rary flourish under The National Law Jour - can Student Services to respond to the needs of students was awarded an Equal many famous designers. nal. She received the of color. Since then, the office’s mission has evolved—as Justice Works Legal Fel - same award in 2006 for has its name—to address the university’s broad spectrum lowship for 2008–10. She MATTHEW PAWLIK / an article she co-write of experiences related to diversity. It’s now called the will work at the Equal CAS ’01 / is co-founder while in her third year at Center for Multicultural Education and Programs, and Justice Center, Inc., in of MixMyGranola.com—a Columbia Law School. supporters will celebrate two decades of work and progress Austin, TX, where she will new Web site where you with an event on May 15 titled “OASIS to The Center: help immigrant and low- can custom mix granola EVELINE KUHN / Commemorating 20 Years of Advancing Diversity at income workers recover by choosing from 50 dif - STEINHARDT ’02, ’04 / NYU.” The dinner program will be held in the Kimmel unpaid wages. ferent ingredients. is cofounder, managing director, and a member Center’s Eisner & Lubin Auditorium from 6 to 9 PM , and the cost is $25 per person. For more information, e-mail SHAHID KHAN / STERN MARC WARNER / TSOA of America’s Dream Marian Newsom at [email protected] or call ’01 / was promoted to ’01 / has been named Chamber Artists, a cham - 212-998-6940. senior partner at Interac - vice president for com - (CONTINUED ON PAGE 74) NYU / SPRING 2009 / 73 (CONTINUED FROM development for the EDMUND CHEN / SCPS guide for the dense and of - official site of the New C PAGE 73) Minnesota Lynx. ’04 / recently joined Ex - ten confusing estate and Jersey Nets NBA Basket - L ber music soci - hibitgroup/Giltspur’s global gift tax provisions in the ball team. A ety based in MARGARET ANNE FLO - design and creative net - Internal Revenue Code. S New York City. RENCE / STEINHARDT work team in New York, LISA MONDELLO / CAS ’03 / stars as Luisa in The where he will develop cre - FIONA SZE LORRAIN / ’04 / married Matthew S MIRAIDA Fantasticks, along with ative solutions for LG Elec - CAS ’04 / recently co- Fielack in Stony Point, NY, NOTES MORALES / JORDAN NICHOLS / tronics. authored a book with Gao on April 19, 2008. Mondel - CAS ’02, TSOA ’07 / , at the Snapple Xingjian, the 2000 Nobel lo is a senior publicist at GSAS ’03 / co- Theater Center in Times JULIE HARBEY / CAS ’04 Prize Laureate in Litera - Picador books in Manhat - founded a non - Square. The off-Broadway / rang the closing bell at ture, in which his poetry is tan; Fielack is an HVAC profit youth theater group, show is currently the the NYSE on Friday, April 11, translated from French to technician with Johnson Artists for Creative The - longest-running musical in 2008, on behalf of the English. She also worked Controls in Brooklyn. The atre. Its first production, the world. Women’s Syndicate Associ - with Gao on “Initiation In - two met at a Wolfe Tones Little White Lies, opened in ation, for which she serves ternational,” an interna - concert in 2006. July 2008. STACEY BETH (FREIS) on the executive board. She tional performing arts SCHULMAN / STEIN - was joined by the group’s festival in Singapore in JAMES F. O’SULLIVAN / ANGELA FAYE TAYLOR / HARDT ’03 / is a regis - entire board and its active 2007. WAG ’04 / has been STERN ’02 / of Minneapo - tered dietitian who New York members. named director of donor lis was hired as vice presi - maintains a private prac - MATTHEW M CQUEENY / services at Rockefeller dent and general manager tice in both midtown Man - ALEXANDRA KLEIN / CAS ’04 / has returned to Philanthropy Advisors, of the Washington Mystics, hattan and Westchester LAW ’04 / recently au - Winning Strategies, a pub - where he will focus on a Women’s National Bas - county. She specializes in thored The Estate and Gift lic relations and online foundation clients. ketball Association team the treatment of eating Tax Map (Thomson-West) communications company, based in Washington, DC. disorders. Her Web site with the assistance of in Newark, NJ, after two VITRA SINGH / CAS ’04 / Previously, Taylor was the is www.staceyschulman AEJAZ DAR / LAW ’04 . seasons as the Web pro - launched her own small vice president of business nutrition.com. The book is a self-study ducer for NJNets.com, the business Web site called www.ItsyBitsyBraBar.com, which is a specialty site catering to petite women Want to Hear More About Alumni looking for petite under - Activities? Contact Us! garments. HEATHER A. VAUGHAN / COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SCHOOL OF LAW STEINHARDT ’04 / re - HEIGHTS COLLEGES ARTS AND SCIENCE 212-998-6400 cently published two arti - GENERAL STUDIES PROGRAM 212-998-4639 [email protected] cles, “Foreign Treasures: 212-998-4639 [email protected] Elizabeth Ginno’s Costume [email protected] SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Etchings at the 1940 Ex - INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS 212-263-5390 position on Treasure Is - COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY 212-992-5804 [email protected] land, San Francisco” in the 212-998-9824 [email protected] International Journal of [email protected] SILVER SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK Local & Regional Studies LEONARD N. STERN 212-998-9189 and “Natacha Rambova, COLLEGE OF NURSING SCHOOL OF BUSINESS [email protected] Fashion Designer 212-992-8580 212-998-4040 (1928–1931)” in Dress [email protected] [email protected] THE STEINHARDT SCHOOL (Journal of The Costume OF CULTURE, EDUCATION, Society of America). COURANT INSTITUTE OF ROBERT F. WAGNER GRADUATE AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES SCHOOL OF PUBLIC SERVICE 212-998-6942 ROBIN WILSON / SCPS 212-998-3321 212-998-7537 [email protected] ’04 / won the Black Enter - [email protected] [email protected] prise Business Innovator TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS of the Year award, pre - GALLATIN SCHOOL OF SCHOOL OF CONTINUING 212-998-6954 sented at the Small Busi - INDIVIDUALIZED STUDY AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES [email protected] ness Awards luncheon in 212-992-7762 212-998-7003 May 200 8 in Charlotte, NC. [email protected] [email protected] (CONTINUED ON PAGE 77) 74 / SPRING 2009 / NYU Positioned at a crossroads of the world and integrated into a global research university. New York University Abu Dhabi NYU Abu Dhabi is creating a vibrant community of scholars— faculty and students—across the Arts, Humanities, Social Science, Sciences, and Engineering, with extraordinary opportunities for research, creative work, teaching, and learning. Opening 2010. www.nyuad.nyu.edu alumni art MATERIAL EXPERIENCE Dorothy’s ruby slippers, the Big Bad Wolf, and Rapunzel’s lengthy installation that made cross-country stops on its way to New York City locks have all served as inspiration for the interactive artist MK GUTH for the 2008 Whitney Biennial, visitors answered the question “What is (STEINHARDT ’02) , whose work often derives from fables and mythol - worth protecting?” on fabric ribbons. Guth then wove their responses ogy. In the Red Shoe Delivery Service , for example, a mobile gallery picked with synthetic hair to form a massive braid that grew to more than 1,800 up random passengers who then selected a pair of red shoes, clicked feet. “At the core of the interactive work is this notion of making,” she their heels, and told the camera where they’d like to be transported. explains. “I don’t just document people’s experience, rather, those expe - In Ties of Protection and Safe Keeping (pictured above), a room-scale riences become the material to make something new.” —Renée Alfuso 76 / SPRING 2009 / NYU We want to hear from you! Let us know what is happening in your career C and life. Submit your news items, personal milestones, or an obituary L of a loved one to: NYU Class Notes, 25 West Fourth Street, Fourth Floor, A New York, NY, 10012 or via e-mail to [email protected]. S S NOTES (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 74) FELICE BATLAN / GSAS for the Chattanooga Times national Studies for a mas - around the MAUREEN ANDARY / ’05 / was named co-direc - Free Press in Tennessee. ter’s degree in internation - globe. CAS ’05 / was one of tor of Chicago-Kent Col - al affairs. 12 finalists in the 2008 lege of Law’s Institute for NICK MOLINARI / WAG JENNIFER TIPPINS / Mountain Stage New Law and the Humanities. ’05 / was recently pro - THOMAS K. PATTERSON TSOA ’05 / received a Ful - Song Contest, an interna - Batlan previously taught moted to deputy director / TSOA ’05 / recently fin - bright scholarship to study tional competition at Tulane Law School. She in the Planning Division of ished a run of Arms and animated film and art at presented by the Folk practiced corporate and the NYC Department of the Man at Electric The - City University of Hong Alliance in Charleston, litigation law for nine Parks and Recreation. atre Company in Scranton, Kong. She is one of more WV. Andary also received years, and served as head PA. He has been a member than 1,450 U.S. citizens a Young Emerging Artist of global compliance and SUSHMITHA NARSIAH / of Actors’ Equity since who will travel abroad for grant from the DC Com - associate general counsel CAS ’05 / is a gender ana - 2006. the 2008–09 academic mission on the Arts and at Greenwich Capital lyst at the World Bank in year through the Fulbright Humanities. Her debut Markets. Washington, DC, where she JORDAN SILVER / WAG U.S. Student Program. album of original songs, studies women entrepre - ’05 / recently opened Sil - Nostalgia, was released MALLORY CARRA / CAS neurs from 181 countries ver Lining Opticians, a lux - BYRON AU YONG / TSOA last year. For more, ’05 / covers real estate for the Doing Business ury optical boutique in ’05 / is exhibiting his col - visit myspace.com/ news for the New York Dai - project. She is also attend - Soho featuring independ - laboration with artist maureenmusic. ly News. 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